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<span id="docs-internal-guid-e804c88e-ad0b-9ab0-2af0-f76b5a8bbd97"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Decades of crime against the weakest among us will be exposed to the general public this year, at times it will be hard to read the latest news headlines. This work of revealing evil is a necessary work. The heavenly forces perform this work in order for godly prosperity to come to the nations. A calamitous end has been prophesied for decades BUT God has a work He will perform before THE END.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An understanding of the work of heaven will be more clear to mankind as the Lord unravels the sinister plans of the wicked. We will experience a work of grace that promotes a new found liberty like we haven't seen for a long time. This work will promote a real and true effort to share ideas that will make things better for every human who lives on the earth, in turn we will see a new level of international collaboration that will bring humans from every tribe together in ways we have not seen.
Talk of WWIII will cease because the masterminds of these things have been put at bay.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What a relief for all of mankind as this work of heaven rolls out blessings for those who have suffered for generations. As in the days of the Protestant Reformation we will see new innovations like never before as brilliant men and women share their ideas and collaborate to produce things that will set people free from illnesses and poverty. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The citizens of the US will begin to see that our nation has been under Satanic rule for decades, we will see those in high places who have been leveraging their positions to bring pain and suffering upon the masses brought low. This year the individual with a seeking heart will realize the profound truth found in Deuteronomy:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“He administers </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">justice</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. Dt. 10:18 NKJV</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As Justice is served praises will flow up to the Lord with voices raised which will encourage the forces of heaven to press forward. Let all who fear the Lord, the Maker of Heaven and Earth, see His work and magnify His Name as He continually raises His Hand to deal with evil. He has kept His word in our time. The Lord is meting out justice for the orphan, fatherless, stranger, and widow. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When lies and misinformation dominant the news and when lies pervade our educational institutions division is natural and normative. People can’t see what really is. When justice is served, truth bubbles to the surface. Some of our silly divisions will be mended as people from both sides of political arguments see that evil is found on every hand and it has been exposed.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2017 was a year of battle. Evil like a cancer wants to dominate a living cell to control its food supply, but when the work of healing comes this toxic energy has to flee. When Jesus walks into the room, evil must scatter.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many fathers from every tribe will be rejoined with their children in a fight to restore mankind to place of honor and dignity. The world of machine domination will be shown for what it really is...<b> A Satanic lie.</b> This is a monumental fight to recover the original mandate for men and women to multiply and fill the earth, to fulfill the role of vice-regent reserved for us by Our Creator:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gen. 1: 28. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There has to be a thing called <b>truth,</b> if no truth than no evil. We know what evil is when we see its operation, how sick and deformed the minds of those who devise plans to destroy God’s creation and his creatures.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As evil is put away our attitude toward each other will change. We will open our minds and listen to the words of our fellow humans in a new and fresh way. When people are divided on hard lines they don't grow in knowledge. In these days men will seek in a honorable way to learn how to listen to alternative views and seek compromise solutions. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The church we have known for the last few decades will gradually change to a smaller local community originating and to a more cause-based model. The house church movement will continue to grow.
This move of God will promote new and better relationships for some who have felt alone in their views. Truth is sharp and when it is resisted by the established order it cuts hard. The associated pain causes the established order to resist that which must come to the forefront. This is an inevitable consequence of lies about God and His Word running amuck. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">People everywhere will start to see how real cooperation works. Regular people talking to regular people through worldwide cyberspace communication.
Consumerism will not be so controlling of the world population as inventions that really help mankind are presented to the marketplace. The idea of free energy will be let loose as machines seek more and more energy, thus men will be allowed to offer free energy solutions.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We will need supernatural grace to touch this heavenly work. A holy indignation will rise up inside of most as they realize the terrible demonic nature of this evil.
As things unravel we will need new leaders in all levels of government, education, and business. We must praise the Lord for He has prepared these leaders to take their place when the opportunity and need arises.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“He has made everything </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(158, 11, 15); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">beautiful</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.” &nbsp;Ecc. 3:11</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How could we think that so great a God as Yahweh would ever let evil triumph has it appears to be ruling in these dark times. <br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Praise the Lord with our voices raised. Let all who fear the Lord, the Maker of Heaven and Earth, see as He raises His Hand to deal with evil. He has kept His word in our time. Let all who have breath praise the Lord. The Lord is meting out justice for the orphan, fatherless, stranger, and widow. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253); color: rgb(1, 16, 58); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">---
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Jerusalem is a city set on a hill for all to see. To see a beautiful place, not a place of war, not a place of deception, but a place of love, life, and holiness. This is the place reserved for the Throne of Our King - Yahshua. In this year progress will be made for Jerusalem to rebuild her inner parts. History will be unpacked and we will learn much more of the lines that mark her past.
</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style=""><span style="color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;">Do not remove the&nbsp;</span><span class="criteria" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-style: solid solid dotted; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(158, 11, 15); border-image: initial; color: rgb(158, 11, 15); font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;">ancient</span><span style="color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;">&nbsp;</span><span class="criteria" id="yui-gen38" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-style: solid solid dotted; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(158, 11, 15); border-image: initial; color: rgb(158, 11, 15); font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;">landmark which</span><span style="color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-size: 16px; white-space: normal;">&nbsp;your fathers have set. Prov. 22:28</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Breaking down the wall of separation between the Jew and the Greek is a mandate of the King of Israel. The last season of earth time is marked by a procession of people from all the tribes that will go up to Jerusalem to offer up sacrifices of thanksgiving to the One and Only Living God - El Elyon. All of men's idols will topple, those who promote deception will fall; those who held strong will be exalted in the Land of Promises.
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 30px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253);">And it shall come to pass&nbsp;</span><i id="yui-gen82" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; text-indent: 30px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253);">that</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 30px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253);">&nbsp;everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the L</span><span class="yhwh" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 0.8em; text-indent: 30px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253);">ORD</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 30px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253);">&nbsp;of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. Zac. 14:16</span>
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Those who blindly follow a message of discord will be shamed and brought to see that they followed a false premise. God never forsakes His promises to men of all backgrounds and cultures. What He has said will be and it will therefore happen in His time: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<b>Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:</b> ​​“May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls, Prosperity within your palaces.”For the sake of my brethren and companions, ​​I will now say, “Peace </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">be</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> within you.” Because of the house of the LORD our God. I will seek your good. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Ps. 122: 6-9</b></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The beginnings of a temple will be built that honors the history of the God of Israel. This is a temple will not be all that it should be but it will be beautiful in elevation, the 8th wonder of the world, not of the order of the heavenly temple, but beautiful in design and craftsmanship.
This manmade temple will point the nation of Israel to their Messiah, the anointed of God. As this work unfolds the jealousy of Satan will arouse but to no avail the temple will be built and the nations will flow to see its beautiful doors slung wide open. This will usher in a new season for the people of Israel. They will be forced to make a decision, return to the Land of the Messiah or stay in a place of comfort.
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, &quot;sans serif&quot;; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 30px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253);">And from the time&nbsp;</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, &quot;sans serif&quot;; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 30px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253);">that</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, &quot;sans serif&quot;; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 30px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253);">&nbsp;the daily&nbsp;</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, &quot;sans serif&quot;; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 30px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253);">sacrifice</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, &quot;sans serif&quot;; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 30px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253);">&nbsp;is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up,&nbsp;</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, &quot;sans serif&quot;; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 30px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253);">there shall be</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, &quot;sans serif&quot;; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 30px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253);">&nbsp;one thousand two hundred and ninety days.&nbsp;</span><span id="verse_862012" data-bible-id="862012" class="vnum" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: top; font-size: 0.8em; color: rgb(92, 116, 154); font-family: arial, helvetica, &quot;sans serif&quot;; text-indent: 30px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253);">12&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, &quot;sans serif&quot;; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 30px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253);">Blessed&nbsp;</span><i id="yui-gen61" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, &quot;sans serif&quot;; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 30px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253);">is</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, &quot;sans serif&quot;; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 30px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(252, 253, 253);">&nbsp;he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days</span>
</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.
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</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1, 16, 58); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div></span>Tue, 02 Jan 2018 12:16:42 +0100A Word for 2017 - a year of battlehttp://llifellowship.yolasite.com/index/a-word-for-2017-a-year-of-battle
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 1.22;">This
is the year to fight in the spirit realm. We have always known that a war wages
in the heavens, right above our collective heads. This year a door has been
opened to help us wrestle with principalities and powers and to win those battles, to take territory
back that has been lost, and to recover stolen goods.</span><span style="line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;</span><br></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Yes,
Satan has stolen much from the people of God, those who walk with Him, those
who seek His face. There are items that have our name emblazoned on them that
sit in the enemy’s camp. It’s time to sound the alarm again, to get up off the
couch of soulish comfort and work with the host of heaven.</span></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Time
is moving faster and faster. The end is near. Don’t get caught napping when the
Bridegroom appears in the middle of the night. He has not informed us of His
return because He wants us to believe it could be today. So today if you hear His
voice and are called by His Name you must go and find your spiritual weapons, clean
them off, and prepare your mind and your heart for battle.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 1.22;">This
is a good war, a battle for truth, a battle for souls, a battle for peace, and
a battle for unity in the Body. To go public with our efforts to bring back the
spoken word in the public square. To show off Christ in a godly way, to bring
forth good news in truth and in love.<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 1.22;"><br>To
love the castoff and the wandering soul. To recover sight to the blinded eyes
and to restore the broken home. To bring the children back to the parents,
parents back to children, and to bring back siblings to siblings. To recover
all that was lost in the intervening years.</span></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">God
has not changed His mind about us, about His people and about this nation we
call America. He loves this nation and will bring restoration to us if we are
willing to walk with Him and talk with Him in the garden in the cool of the
day. To fill up our hearts with His words and promises.</span></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">As
a man thinks so he is, as a man talks so he is, we are our words we are our
thoughts, so let’s think better this year. Let’s imagine a better world with
better things. Let’s live again. Let’s walk together as one. This is what the
Lord wants; this activity reveals His heart for people.</span></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Let’s
come out of our circles of comfort and invest ourselves in new circles of
influence, let’s open our mind to new thoughts and a new way. This is hard but
if we just make ourselves available He will fill us up with His might and power
and it will happen. Don’t think you can do anything; all we can do is be
available for service. He will guide us to the people that need us and want us
to share our hearts with them.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 1.22;">The
government of Jesus is upon His shoulders, the world belongs to Him, He and
only He earned it by obedience and by the letting of His blood. He is so
special, no one can compare with His Person, no one did what He did in human
flesh. He is God Almighty He is Lord over all Creation, the earth belongs to
Him. No one and no thing can stop His influence in all of culture and in all of
world affairs.</span></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Israel
and Jerusalem are still the apple of His eye. No group of people no matter how
strong will tear away the Land from His People. His people are His people
because He chooses them to be not because of their outstanding virtue, not
because of their amazing intelligence but simply because of His choice.</span></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">---<br><br>Salvation
belongs to the Lord, he owns the music of the heart and can play its strings; He makes men,
women, and children willing in the Day of His Power, let us never forget. </span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"></span></p><p>&nbsp;----</p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Without
Him no one would seek the Lord or His Kingdom. We have all gone astray and we
have all gone our own way. But He is the True Shepherd of His Sheep. We are the
sheep of His pasture, any person, from any tribe or culture, can come into His
fold and walk among His sheep and be counted part of His family.</span><span style="line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">This
is the year to build anew. To start again those works that lay far back in the recesses of our mind and in the back parts of our private storage places. Things that
He has opened our eyes to see, things that our hearts have a will to do, things which
He has equipped us to perform for His glory.</span></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">This
is year and a time to stand up and look down on our enemy. To get out from underneath. To call forth the
powers of heaven to fight on our behalf. To release the powers of light and truth to
confront the power of darkness and deceit. The battle is the Lord’s, dear people, the
battle is the Lord’s, we just have to give Him our heart requests, this we do by our faith and in His willingness to do it for us.</span></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Songs
mark any time of His refreshment, His revivals, so let the songs of heaven come
forth and strengthen our step. New sounds, new words, fresh understanding that
open the mind and the heart to see heaven, an open heaven is so beautiful.</span></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">The
church is the people the people are the church. Let no one think that he is the
church exclusively. Let no man think he can command this army. No, we need the
Holy Spirit to be our Moses, to guide us and inform us how to win the battle, where to go and fight, where to go and rest, where to go and eat and sleep.</span></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We
cannot do this work; only He can do it, so we wait for His alarm sounds and His
soul impressions.&nbsp; We wait for His
empowerment. We wait for His words to come to our understanding. Yes, we wait
for the call to arms, faith is our shield and the Word is our sword. Are they
fit for battle? Only you can determine, only you can truly know how ready you
are to fight this epic fight based&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 22.7733px;">solely</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&nbsp;on faith not physical power. <br><br>Yes the weak can become strong, the old can renew their strength in Him. All those who believe can watch. Or we can engage on a daily basis, to open our hearts to His will and seek to learn anew His way.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"></span></p><p>&nbsp;----</p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Let
us rise up and let stand and lean forward with expectation of what He will do. Let us see this
all the way through to victory. Amen</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<!--EndFragment-->Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:33:03 +0100What is wrong with the local church?http://llifellowship.yolasite.com/index/what-is-wrong-with-the-local-church-
<p><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%">What is
wrong with the local church?</span></b></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">Jesus choose four businessmen to be His frontline disciples
and future leaders of the Church, the Bride of Christ. These men were the
brothers Peter and Andrew and brothers James and John. He choose them
immediately following the torments of a very challenging forty days in the
wilderness, and post a full onslaught from the Son of Perdition, the most
devious sinister instrument of evil the world has ever known.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">Our Lord responded to this satanic onslaught with a plan. A
focused plan of attack to rebuild the world according the Plan of His Father. A
plan that had to include certain critical members of the human race. These Divinely
chosen men were not academic scholars, most likely they would have not passed
the early stages of an entrance application to an Ivy League school.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">Their resume would not have qualified them for the MBA
program at the Harvard Business School or Carnegie Mellon University, yet these
fishermen were the first disciples to enter into a three year extensive
leadership training session with the Lord of the Universe.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">Jesus had a master plan to overthrow the Kingdom of Darkness,
break the curse of sin and death, and at the same time fulfill His Heavenly
Mandate to recapture the sons of men by introducing them to the wonderful
reality of inheriting eternal life and immortality.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">Today the modern day evangelical community forms a church or
carries on the mission of a local church ideally from a list of academically
trained seminarians or with competent teachers from other successful churches arming
them with an underpaid staff and with a good number of volunteers. In the end
the criteria would seem to involve leaders who are typically good motivators
and that have a great plan for adding numbers to the flock.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">I'm not sure that academia offered what Jesus was looking
for when He chose these four businessmen/fishermen, not that it disqualifies a person that is academically trained. <br><br>I would never claim to have
a full understanding of the mind of God but I’m confident that His plan to
change the entire landscape of the religious world was not based on human
intelligence or religious scholarship, all of which was available to Him.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">Notice with me the account of the selection of these men:</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:5.25pt;line-height:19.2pt;background:
#F9FAFB;vertical-align:top"><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Four Fishermen Called as Disciples</span></i></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:4.5pt;line-height:19.2pt;background:
#F9FAFB;vertical-align:top"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#5E5E5E">(<span style="border:solid black 1.0pt;
mso-border-alt:solid black .25pt;padding:0in;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Mark
1:16–20; Luke 5:1–11</span> )</span></i></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:
22.5pt;line-height:19.2pt;background:#F9FAFB;vertical-align:top"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#5C749A;border:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid black .25pt;
padding:0in">18&nbsp;</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And Jesus, walking by the Sea of
Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting
a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.&nbsp;</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#5C749A;border:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid black .25pt;
padding:0in">19&nbsp;</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I
will make you fishers of men.”&nbsp;</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#5C749A;border:solid black 1.0pt;
mso-border-alt:solid black .25pt;padding:0in">20&nbsp;</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They immediately left&nbsp;<span style="border:solid black 1.0pt;
mso-border-alt:solid black .25pt;padding:0in;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">their</span>&nbsp;nets
and followed Him.</span></i></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:
22.5pt;line-height:19.2pt;background:#F9FAFB;vertical-align:top"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#5C749A;border:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid black .25pt;
padding:0in">21&nbsp;</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Going on from there, He saw two other
brothers, James&nbsp;<span style="border:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid black .25pt;
padding:0in;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">the</span>&nbsp;<span style="border:
solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid black .25pt;padding:0in;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic">son</span>&nbsp;of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with
Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them,&nbsp;</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#5C749A;border:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid black .25pt;
padding:0in">22&nbsp;</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and immediately they left the boat and
their father, and followed Him.</span></i></p><p></p><p></p>
<p></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">I have written in the past on the type of call that Jesus
offered these four unpretentious men. Today I want to simply point out the fact
that they were chosen to be the first line of the eventual 12 trainees in His
Kingdom building plan.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">I want to note what each set of brothers were doing when they
were summoned to follow Jesus:</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">1.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%">Peter and
Andrew were fishing in the sea of Galilee</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">2.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%">James and
John were mending their nets preparing to fish with their father.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">What did they do upon receiving the invitation from Jesus? </span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;color:red">“They
immediately left the boat, and their father and followed Jesus”.</span></i></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">These men did not have any time to run an overview of the
business plan, as they were naturally wired to care about. They did expect a
detailed outline of challenges of following someone of which they had no prior
knowledge. What was it about these men that made Jesus pick them?</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">Dealing with the items that are on the surface we can see
that in the first place they were brothers. In the second place He chose them
in twos. And in the third place they were professional fishermen busy with
their work. </span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">What can we glean from this account to understand the kind of
folks that Jesus is looking for in church leadership? </span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">We can immediately gather that their education was not the
primary reason, nor their religious affiliation, also we can see that their
current title or position in society had no impact on the choice of Jesus. We
learn from our history books that God’s best leaders are taught in the some of
the most difficult and strangest of places.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">From biblical history we can gather that great leaders can be
found in the fields’ isolated, working as shepherds or farmers, as in the case
of Moses, David, and Jacob. While other great men in the Bible had their character
developed in a prison as was the case of Joseph and Jeremiah, and one famous prophet
spent time in the belly of fish.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">God sees our heart like no one can. His choice is based on
many factors most of which are not visible to us, this is true since a man’s
true character is typically developed outside the limelight of human
observation.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">So what is missing from the local churches we try to piece
together today?</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">Having visited many different kinds of churches I have
observed that the first thing that is missing is a true and godly leadership
team that has been molded and put together by the Hand of the Living God.
Leaders who have had their character developed in the recesses of broken dreams
and huge setbacks.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">The second problem is the issue of listening to the Holy
Spirit and responding without fear. Most men and women have this natural
inclination of self-protection, a mechanism that hinders them from making
positive and quick decisions. The hardest being stepping away from a higher
position to a lower one in public perception.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">An example would be a pastor who struggles with preaching to
the lost, one who lacks the gifting of an evangelist, who has all around him
potential evangelists but because of his pride and insecurities he maintains
control of the pulpit and or microphone.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">Another example would be responding to God’s move in a
particular geography and season.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">Sometimes the Holy Spirit wants to move fast, so what are you
to do when that happens? Hang back and try to slow the process down? That would
be a big mistake. </span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">What if the early church took this approach?</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">Think of Peter’s call to Joppa, or Paul’s dream that led him
to Philippi and a jailhouse. How often did we see the church in Jerusalem
coming together and asking the Holy Spirit to help them make a decision on who
to send and where.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">I know the key to answering the difficulties of this kind of
challenge we face today in the American church. The answer to this call is
simple, faith, a brand of faith that seeks to “learn” the Voice of the Spirit
of God and the process of waiting on God’s timing.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%">But here is
the basic issue. </span></b></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;color:red">If
you don’t know what the house looks like after it’s completed how then you will
build it? </span></i></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">Jesus spent His early days watching and learning. His
ministry was launched on top of the foundation of a wilderness experience that
none of us could endure without the supernatural Hand of God holding us all the
way through. Jesus had to go through each arduous step in order to properly
connect with the next step.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">The launch of His earthly Kingdom started with the selection
of His leadership team. The first four were not seminarians but businessmen.
That thought and reality forces me to take a step back, and I believe all of us
should be taken back by this Divine order.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">If we learned how to wait on the Lord (this personally has
been my toughest challenge) and if we honestly studied His leadership training
methods, and the kind of people He selected, we would have better local
congregations.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">The biggest challenge we face is the issue of loyalty to
faithful members and leaders. Listening to the board of deacons or elders, the establishment,
drives decision making in most local churches. So you can learn from
observation that the hardest thing to change in any season of human history is
leadership.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%">But this is where God has to step in and shake things up. He
does so by taking a few men and women aside and in a place of isolation He
walks them through a tediously slow process of development. Each lesson is
taught in a manner that enforces each important lesson. Human pride is dealt
with in full way so that after God’s leadership team is installed they know who
is qualified to be sent to minister to a lost and dying world, and most
importantly, when their time is complete.</span></p><p></p><p></p>Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:02:24 +0100A Believer's Position on Climate Changehttp://llifellowship.yolasite.com/index/a-believer-s-position-on-climate-change
<span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 15px;">It's been a good while since I last deposited a word or two on this page. Since my last post I have come to learn more about how the Lord is calling us to serve Him.&nbsp;<span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br><br>We moved back to Pilot Mountain this past February following a period of much struggle and searching for direction in my calling and career track. It was in Northern NJ that I found solar energy and fell in love with the idea of clean energy. The thought that my four boys could live in a world where they are not "called" up (drafted) to fight in wars dictated by our nation's energy policy motivated me to get out and tell the story of clean energy to bunches and bunches of people.<br><br>In an effort to drain out as much of the polarizing political debate on climate change, and with a determination to wedge in a biblical perspective, I attempt to share some thoughts on how I and we should prepare our hearts and minds on this critical issue. <br><br>I care not whether the promoters of a worldwide carbon tax are searching for a yet another grab of control of the world's population, or if the data used to support such a wrest for control is accurate. The current state of the polar ice caps are not my immediate concern. <br><br>At the heart of this debate is what I will term "a godly environmental worldview". The industrial revolution has brought us more people, more production of goods made from fossil fuels, and a whole lot more new toxins pumped into the air, and more diesel exhaust pumped into our oceans by large cargo ships, as well as countless numbers of holes in the earth's crust.<br><br>Before we step into the argument about whether or not hydro-fracking is an environmentally safe method to extract shale gas, we have to ask the question, <b>"is there a better way to harvest the power and energy to spin a motor"</b>? Can we move ourselves and our stuff around the globe at the current pace, can we honestly increase capacity required for the betterment of mankind by continuing the same intense level of drilling for oil and natural gas? <br><br>Dan 12:4&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.6800003051758px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">“But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”<br></span><br>The words in this verse are like a capstone on world events leading up to the ultimate battle between Christ and Satan. Running "to and fro" is what makes our world go around. Technology has a fundamental purpose, and this purpose has at its core a focus to increase movement of information and people plus incredible access to information. So modern technology is about running to and fro, if not physically, than through communication lines (now a cloud) connected to our handheld devices or a computer.</span></span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br><br><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 15px;">Adding further background from the angle of my biased perspective is the fact I was raised in the rolling hills of southeastern PA on a dairy farm. It was here that I developed a love for the land. I naturally came to see firsthand how the Lord has mysteriously made the soil, water, and the sun produce food and thus has made a beautiful way for us to sustain our life on this planet, even though part of the curse of man's sin was the curse of making that food by the sweat of our brow.<br></span><br>My exposure to the farm and produce has permanently imbued my perspective on how I look at the environment. It was hard to watch my dad sell off all his cattle and equipment in 1986. Little did I know that my father's struggle to make it in farming would make a deep sub conscience impression on me. That impression is simply expressed as my natural sense that everything in life is temporary, nothing lasts forever. The winners and the losers change places throughout history. But in the end we could all be losers if we chase the wrong things with the wrong motives.<br><br>So how should we look at or address the idea of renewable energy and clean energy?<br><br>To start off, I am involved in the clean energy business, this by choice, but also a byproduct of a time of great soul searching from 2009-2011 to take care of my family. Through this experience I intensely sought the Lord to inquire how I could take care of my family in a field that would help us to do the things that would best support ourselves and His Kingdom.<br><br>Before I ever took up a book on clean energy or a class to learn about this technology I had good work experience earlier in my life where I designed clean air solutions for the fire service. My task was to remove all the diesel exhaust in the firehouse from the time that the engine started to the point where it left the station, also upon return the fire engine continued to emit diesel exhaust as it backed into its parked position inside the firehouse. The sense of satisfaction I received after I installed one of our clean air systems was very gratifying. When I drove away in my red Ford F350 I knew in my heart I had done good for the men and women living inside the walls of that firehouse.<br><br>After I sold and eventually saw the value of an installed solar system, I felt the same sense of satisfaction. As a matter of reflection, if any of you are out there doing work that does not satisfy you I would challenge you to consider looking into work that fits your God-given purpose.<br><br>From this vantage point, climate change is not the issue we are called to deal with simply because most climate change scientists come at the argument from an evolutionary point of view. Stating tacitly that we are the sole protectors of our planet and the our solar system. A completely preposterous idea from the standpoint of our basic puniness as compared to all the forces that can so easily damage our planet and our way of life.<br><br>My obvious assumption is that God the Creator made all things including you and me, and with His last and most important creative act he made us to know the earth and commissioned us to be good stewards of the earth. In an awesome and overwhelming Divine edict we were and are declared to be His vice regents of our planet.<br><br><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.6800003051758px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.6800003051758px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">You have put all&nbsp;</span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: top; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.6800003051758px;">things</i><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.6800003051758px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">&nbsp;under his feet, Ps 8:6<br></span><br>So here we see clearly from this text that we have been granted the right to do with the earth as we deem right. We harvested God's trees to make heat, light, build our homes, make furniture, and for cooking. So in order to use a tree for these helpful things we have to first cut the tree down to the ground thus we expose God's little creatures to harm.&nbsp;Considering the fact that the birds and the insects that called the tree home have to now find another place to live. Sad, but somehow God takes cares of these concerns for them and he has for us. <br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">“</span><span class="criteria" id="yui-gen30" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border-style: solid solid dotted; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(158, 11, 15); border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(158, 11, 15); font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Consider</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">&nbsp;</span><span class="criteria" id="yui-gen31" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border-style: solid solid dotted; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(158, 11, 15); border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(158, 11, 15); font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">the</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">&nbsp;ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than&nbsp;</span><span class="criteria" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border-style: solid solid dotted; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(158, 11, 15); border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(158, 11, 15); font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">the</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">&nbsp;</span><span class="criteria" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border-style: solid solid dotted; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(158, 11, 15); border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(158, 11, 15); font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">birds</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">? Lk. 12:24</span>&nbsp;<br><br>But still we play an important role in insuring that the ecosystem is healthy, and that forest we decided was a good place to harvest some wood. Because this very forest will continue to yield the renewable wood products we delight to use for countless applications that makes our daily life more enjoyable and easy. But we should and we must think about the next generation of trees that forest will or will not produce based on how we manage the piece of God's land. .<br><br>This point and example of how mankind has used the earth for the pursuit of his own happiness carries me forward to the point we have to face today as it pertains to our energy policy. Clean air and clean water would quite naturally be a positive responsibility as "vice regents", since all of mankind to consider even if to satisfy our natural inclination for legitimate self preservation. A good neighbor cares not only about the welfare of the forest as a steward but he also cares about the next generation of humans and animals and birds that will occupy any piece of His land, so all who may need to access the same resources in the pursuit of being fruitful and multiplying and to be a keeper of the land He gave us to tend.&nbsp;<br><br>As stewards of God's earth we must think in terms of managing the works of His hands, technically we don't own any piece of land or that grows on that piece of land, God does. So caring for the fish who swim in our creeks and rivers, the birds who fly over our heads, and the crops that grow on our little piece of God's earth are clearly our responsibility to maintain.<br><br>To think that when we stand before the Lord one day in judgment and give an account of what we did with His earth and thought should grip our conscience. To know in our hearts that all of us will have to deal with the reality that we will have to confess how we managed His earth and how we treated His earth. This idea might come upon you as a harsh and stark reality for those christians who don't carefully consider how we manage the earth's resources today. <br><br>In the parable of the talents, Our Lord reveals that we are given things by Him out of His Goodness and we are responsible to make positive use of that which He has put under our control. The earth has been given to us as a gift, our title as "vice-regent" of the earth realm is directly connected to our very existence as human beings, so the obvious result of these realities would con-notate that we are responsible for all the decisions we make as a people regarding our natural resources.<br><br>The sad reality is that the folks who care about wildlife and how we manage the earth's resources most of the time do not have a belief that the Bible is God's Word to mankind, and yet they care about the earth more than many of us. &nbsp;<br><br>Capitalism without a referee (government regulations) will run a muck, the creation has and will continue to be tortured by our sinful desire to have more and more, to control markets etc, We need God Himself to intervene to save us from ourselves. God seems to raise up a group that saves the whales and the bald eagle and every other endangered species. But my hope is that God's people will be on the front-lines preserving His earth in the days to come. &nbsp;<br><br>Some might argue that the earth will burn up at some point in the future, but should that be our main concern today? Just as in taking care of the poor, widows, and orphans, we have a stewardship to care for those who have no helper. The earth cries out for good men to do good things to help keep things working in their proper order.<br><br>In a final word on this topic, much more could be said, looking specifically at the growth of the hydro-fracking industry and when we arm ourselves with the facts on the impact of hydro-fracking on the local ecology, we have to consider all the factors involved with the entire process from start to finish. While the natural gas industry creates jobs and wealth it most assuredly impacts the surface and the depths of the earth.&nbsp;<br><br>Industry experts who were on the forefront of developing this technology know intuitively, and they know through personal experience hat the hydro-fracking process does have a negative impact on the ecological systems where the drilling takes place.<br><br>I encourage all those who have concerns about the point made here to go to this link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWf1nhWrrTE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpMal8_jawk &nbsp;<br><br>In the first video the speaker who happens to be an expert on hydro-fracking calls all church going people to consider the real impact of their decisions to sell off the mineral rights of their land on their neighbor's property. A very sobering and good question to consider.<br><br>May the Lord continue to guide us to make fully informed decisions about the impact of our current energy policy as it relates to what the Bible informs us is clearly our responsibility to perform as His vice-regents of planet earth. <br><br>The Bible has something to say about all of life, especially things pertaining to life and godliness, the Bible has much to reveal to us about our responsibility to His earth and to our neighbors. Establishing the reality that the Word is God main goal is to preserve our life here and now and also assists us in enjoying the pleasure of maintaining a godly position on climate change.<br><br><br><br><br><br></span><br></span>Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:41:17 +0100This is Personalhttp://llifellowship.yolasite.com/index/this-is-personal
<br><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">Have you ever heard someone say,&nbsp;“this isn't personal, just business!”?&nbsp;&nbsp;This they say after they just robbed you blind.<br><br>Honor. Money. Promotion. All come from the Lord, but we live in a fallen world and a fallen church.&nbsp; Does the fact that unscrupulous business people use this oft quoted moniker really bring you any comfort after you been cheated by their wicked schemes?&nbsp; In turn, do these words really salve their guilty conscience?&nbsp; Do these words in any way absolutize them of wrong doing in business which consequently hurts you - personally?<br><br>This oft quoted phrase seems only a vain attempt to convince a man or woman who knows they have dealt you a hard blow that all is fair in love and war.&nbsp; After all, they will say to themselves, “don't you know I give regularly to local charities”, “I even give some of my money to the church”, and even on certain occasions,&nbsp;remind us that they gave so much money to this group of underprivileged folks last Christmas. <br><br>Yes indeed, these are some good people, some of them are public icons of virtue, at least in their eyes.&nbsp; But what of you, what of me?&nbsp; The tormented and broken soul who lies in emotional turmoil created by the quake of the hardship created by heartless business decision?&nbsp; Does someone’s bad behavior which left you with a broken heart have anything to do with your growth in grace or character?<br><br>Will the words, “nothing personal, just business” make you feel any better when you wake up on the short end of the deal? I can remember hearing this just before I was cheated out of making a good return on a very hard investment, it could have led me and my family to earn potentially a few million dollars.<br><br>We have become used to the reality that we live in the falsely created dichotomy of a materialistically dualistic world. Americans have created this false dichotomy. We now live in the aftermath of decades of this unscriptural way of life. <br><br>We are made to believe that things that happen at work are under a different set of rules.&nbsp; When have you really believed that putting someone out on the street, jobless, simply for the sake of sordid gain was not a very&nbsp;“personal” act? &nbsp;Nonetheless time and time again these far reaching and long-term life-changing decisions are made every day in our society.<br><br>But what about the typical politics that are maintained in the church, are the implications any different? <br><br>You see a man or woman who is qualified and anointed by the Living God to preach or teach the timeless message of hope to sinners.&nbsp; Another is driven by the Spirit of Christ to start something new to reach a lost and dying generation of kids.&nbsp; Yet another wants to start a prayer meeting at some strange time to beg the Lord's grace to turn the hearts of sinners in your area.&nbsp; Another wants to begin a different type of worship service to appeal to different cultures in your area.&nbsp; All of these folks typically run into a stone walling contingent of status quo lovers and power lusters who will do anything to maintain their position in the church.<br><br>In doing so, the status quo leadership of today's man-centered churches act just like the unscrupulous businessman who carelessly drops the gauntlet on the neck of anyone who dares to challenge the status quo. &nbsp;Most the time the ones they crush are the most anointed by the Lord of heaven to do His will here on earth. &nbsp;Most of those crushed by these short-sighted leaders are the ones most willing to die for the cause of Christ. &nbsp;This is the historical way the Lord, through the work of His Spirit, to revive His people again, and to awaken them to the real cost of being a disciple of Jesus.<br><br>Have you ever heard anybody say to you,&nbsp;“this isn't personal, just church!”?&nbsp;They would not dare say this to you, because its church, and the people who attend church are supposed to operate in a different way, but the very same kind of fraud happens inside the church today as in our materialistic economy driven by greed.<br><br>Every church membership course should include this warning I have just mentioned. Their constitution should have these words written boldly at the beginning of their statement of faith,&nbsp;“this isn't personal, just church!”.&nbsp;&nbsp;Historically, many good men and women of God have been spiritually&nbsp; and emotionally raped and tortured in the place that the apostle Paul called the&nbsp;“pillar and ground of the truth, and the temple of Living God”.<br><br>Men like Polycarp, Luther, Wickliff and others have also succumbed to martyrdom and very cruel treatment at the hands of a power mongering church. Even in our current time of supposed egalitarian enlightenment, we realize physical and emotional pain meted out by those who claim to be keepers of the truth. <br><br>In all cultures and in all places, emotional and very personal grief has been poured out and onto God's rising leaders by supposedly well meaning people in the established church.<br><br>Over the course of human history, the place we call the “house of worship”, has shown itself to be just as self-serving as our greed-laden free market capitalistic society. Are we even surprised by this reality? Are we shocked that we find more solace many times sitting in a bar having a drink and sharing our troubles with men and women who also are overwhelmed by life's circumstances. This in stark contrast to what most of us experience inside the walls of a typical church. <br><br>What has confused me more times then I care to admit is the spirit of antagonism and personal attack that are consistently volleyed upon the heads of the true servants of Christ. It is these very beat down souls that have the answers to some of our problems. Here real Spirit-wrought activity is about to birth just in time to help fellow members in the Body of Jesus Christ. How many wars have we fought over points of doctrine that could have been settled in a place of peace? Our carnal emotions open the divide between us and those who will not change. Fear cripples most of us as we face new and daunting challenges accompanied by the stringent task to deal with things that don't make sense. It will never change. <br><br>This is the way it seems to go.<br><br>Isn't it true that many times, after the Lord gets a hold of a man or woman to train them in his school, He causes their hearts feel and their spiritual eyes see what He sees, this heavenly work accomplished does in turn cause their heart to be astonished and emotes a heartfelt expression of what they see. This work will create a serious divide in your life.<br><br>Now, a real choice is presented --- follow God, or follow the status quo. <br><br>In order to usher in a return of the power of the early first century church, where true simplicity and raw power drove Jesus disciples from a place of fear to a place of boldness carrying the message of the resurrection to the streets. Before Christ's power came from on high, these men and women were cowering and afraid. Huddled warmly together in one sweet accord in a large upper room in Jerusalem. This act of being together was the byproduct of being a lonely believer in Jesus of Nazareth after He lost His popularity. And it was after they were ostracized from their nice Jewish society which included close friends and family. <br><br>Their separation from society brought them together; they were drawn together to form a common Holy Spirit bond -- as fellow sufferers in the camp of those who believe vs. those who didn't believe. Aren't these still the camps we must decide between today? We still only have 2 camps of people.... those who are willing to count the cost and those who play it safe. <br><br>I believe the Lord is performing a similar work in His people. To make a people for Himself who can endure such “personal” hardship as I have just described. They will deal with many new challenges within the realm of the soul, but He will comfort them through His Spirit as the Lord did in the days of the apostles. They will face things they haven't dealt with in their entire lives... They and we will have to overcome hypersensitivity, fear of man, fear of being abandoned, etc. <br><br>These painful and very “personal” situations are going to hurt us deep in our soul. We will take on injuries of the soul that will need healing over time. The Lord will heal as we keep moving forward in our walk toward the glorious kingdom of heaven. In other words, don't get out of the game, but keep moving forward performing God's will for you as you stay in the way of His appointment. To allow the Lord to heal you as you continue to share the consolation that you received directly from His hand, this we do when love others who have been hurt just like you and me.<br><br>I don't claim have all the answers as to why our troubles have to come at the hands of evil men, or well-intentioned people in the church, but they all tend to try the great work of preserving the status quo. These “personal” injuries of the soul are a necessary part of our development, His grace is supplied right at the point of our pain; they act as powerful stimulants toward developing godly character and a determined perseverance. These painfully hard times match up exactly to our Lord's suffering. &nbsp;Do you remember His march all the way to His real place of execution?<br><br>This once-for-all proclamation of the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ has a very sharp edge and it cuts both ways. The back edge of this very sharp knife, we call the Word of God, cuts our souls to pieces, and real blood and raw emotion pour out of us as He shreds our pride and self-reliance. The other edge pulls words out of us and into the hearts of those who hear the words of groaning and urgings to repent and turn to God before it is too late. In the end the old adage, “you can't kill a dead man” enables us to turn the sun baked and hard fallow ground that in reality has always been required and needed to begin a new season of planting in the Lord's field.<br><br>Heb. 4:12-13,&nbsp;“For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of the thoughts and intents of the heart.&nbsp; And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.”<br><br>When a man or woman says, “I want to serve God full-time, or I will go wherever He leads me.” As soon as these words leave our lips we have made a statement that includes unknown assignments that will turn our lives upside-down. These assignments lead us through the gate overshadowed by our own personal cross. The calling of God is irrevocable. Our cross is our personal romance with God, Our Father, straight from the heart of His Son, Jesus Christ. He remembers all the words of your quiet meditation in your time of bleeding. Those words of promise like, “whatever it takes” and "Lord, make me like You" and "help me love what you love and hate what you hate".<br><br>If the Lord is calling you and guiding you to chase after Him and His work, Our very wise Father oftentimes allows and sovereignly ordains these personal hardships in such a way as to overwhelm you. Your slips, bumps, bruises, banged head, scraped knees, and twisted ankles are designed by Our Master to be very "personal" and painful. They are just what the doctor of heaven ordered. He trained His perfect Son and perfected Him this way and continues to train His disciples through the same pathway. <br><br>In this "personal" and embarrassing way we have to endure many a day of the pit in the depths of our stomachs. Can you imagine that this was and is the main point of the lesson? You being dumped out on the street was an integral part of the Lord's plan. He lets you fall gracefully into what appears on the surface to be a random place of confusion and upheaval so He can catch us and revive us. Here that we find our way. &nbsp;A new way. &nbsp;His way. &nbsp;Yes, in this hard place, human pride will take a death blow. &nbsp;Embarrassment empties us self-awareness and feeling weird doing the will of God.<br><br>Praise God Almighty for His willingness to engage us at the point of our biggest problem --- We are: human, carnal, self-respecting, dignified, and prideful.<br><br>Personal embarrassment crushes us. Public humiliation breaks us from our effort to protect ourselves from any accusation and scrutiny that will defame our good name. Even when we have done nothing wrong, attacks against our character will continue come and assail us. You might say, "this isn't fair", but know your "personal" flops have one grand design --- to force you and me to keep our eyes on the real prize – Jesus -- the author and finisher of our faith.<br><br>Notice with me verse 13 of Heb. 4,&nbsp;“all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him who we must give account”.&nbsp;We appeal to the Judge of the Earth who does righteously.<br><br>As we keep our eyes on Him and His cross-bearing example; we firmly believe that one day soon we will be vindicated. We will see His very beautiful face and hear His very real voice speak so clearly to each us,&nbsp;“Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world...” Mt.25:34<br><br>There is not a man or woman of God in the biblical narrative that did not face personal rejection and malicious words of gossip. Paul said in 2 Cor.6:4-10,&nbsp;“But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings; by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.”<br><br>Who are the ones that are qualified to be partakers of his glory? Not those church people who seek the right affiliation with the right people to move up the denominational ladder. Not the endorsement of man, or a strong denominational connection. <br><br>NO, a thousand times NO, we seek only those who are willing to “do” what Paul has outlined in the text. Here in these verses, we learn who will ultimately “possess” all things. Think of it. Nobody who is willing to go through the difficulties outlined in these verses will ever do it without Christ and His grace. Amen and Amen<br><br>We don't understand why so many times that by our very “personal” sufferings, the Lord is preparing us for an incredible kingdom of light and unsurpassing wealth! The Word of God declares, that we, fellow sufferers receive all the world's wealth in the end! <br><br>So what of the deepest blows that bring the most soul pain. So what of lashes represented in words we have endured at the hands of our friends and family. Even from those who do so in the name “Christ”, we will endure these cruel things to one day be counted worthy of the lavish inheritance from the Father, so continue on my friend, we must endure this kind of hardship, what a small price for so great an inheritance! <br><br>Our Lord Jesus was accused of being a bastard, glutton, wine bibber, blasphemer, son of Satan, and many other horrible labels that many of us will never have to deal with, but He kept on a course straight to the Father's throne. <br><br>Our Lord was divinely and eternally purposed to live in a humble blue collar town called Nazareth, mostly comprised of regular unsophisticated people. Nazareth was not noted in the region of Palestine as a place of high society. The town of Nazareth would have been like a coal mining town as were places like Scranton PA or Clarksburg WV. These kind of towns are filled with hard working men who loved to work and also loved to have a good time. I'm sure many of Jesus friends love to party and spoke like common sailors. For almost 30 years, Jesus called these crazy Nazarenes His neighbors and His friends.<br><br>Did any of them ever believe on Him? I'm sure some believed in Him, maybe many more after the days of Pentecost, which was after His public crucifixion. <br><br>We know is that Jesus left their region because they lacked faith in Him. Mt.13:54-58,&nbsp;“When He had come into His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “where did this Man get His wisdom and these mighty works?” Is this not a (carpenter's) metal-workers son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where did this man get these things? So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.” Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.”<br><br>Jesus lineage did not match up to the expectation of those that were looking for Messiah. His life was not the life of scholarship, but rather that of a hardworking mill worker or stone mason. Jesus did not play their game. Pleasing the Pharisee and scribe working through the “vetting” His holy character. Jesus did not think about them to prove His Messianic claims. In other words, He did not in any way kiss their scholarly rear-ends. <br><br>No, His way was the way of the cross, the way of personal embarrassment, listening to the Father and taking, against His will, the way of rejection. What then, my dear friends, is going to be your way or my way in becoming “perfect” disciples of Jesus Christ?<br><br>The Pharisees and Sadducees were very concerned about looking good to their peers and the world around them. They were primarily focused on external religious worship. They cared what people thought at the synagogue and in society. Like so many christians today who choose to find a church based on the best in social connections and business networking or best in show of worship performances for them, not for clarity and commitment that their pastor and congregation be committed to do only the will of God. <br><br>To say that you go such-and-such a church “means” something to your society. My church is great at this or that. We have the best worship team, our preaching is very intelligent and socially and politically correct. Or you should hear our preacher, he is awesome. Or, our church uses the “right” bible. Or our doctrine lines up with this historical group of known heroes of the faith... so on and so forth, you know what I mean if you are reading this article with a serious heart. <br><br>Jesus set all this kind of activity aside so He could live a life of “perfect” righteousness to please His Father and to deliver to us a perfectly righteous life. In so pleasing the Father first, Jesus put personal embarrassment or family conflict out of His holy mind. We must do this as well, and we must do it with all of our heart. We must endure these intense seasons of personal struggle as we seek Him and His glory, in the process, we will become all that God wants us to be as His servants. The Word of God says,&nbsp;“Lo, I have come to do your will of God, your spirit is in my heart.”<br><br>In my life I have whispered to myself,&nbsp;“if I would have just stayed in the background and minded my own business, I would have not had to deal with all this trouble”.&nbsp;If I would have avoided that conflict with a leader, or the fact that I escalated my concern to the top brass of our church, I got in more trouble, thinking they would understand and support the best solution for the long term and for the sake of those who could not defend themselves.<br><br>Most of the troubles I have faced in my adult life are directly connected with to following a voice inside of me that guided me to step into painful confrontations and eventual despair of heart. In so doing these hard things, I have found myself flat on my face many times. This was unavoidable dear friends, simply unavoidable.<br><br>Ever since I was a little boy my heart cry was, “I just want to really love you -- Jesus!” You can read more of my personal&nbsp;“struggle to obey God”&nbsp;by downloading my personal testimony from the home page of this blog site.<br><br>-----<br><br>In bringing many sons to glory the Lord seems to work extra hard on those of us called to do “something” hard for Him. Just study the lives of Abraham, Moses, David, and the prophets. This refining work of "separating" and "sifting" us prepares us to do His will and often times leads us into weird situations where we feel overwhelmed, stupid, and weak. <br><br>Those of you who are being called by God the Father in this season that precedes the ingathering of the bride of Christ, must face insurmountable odds and in turn you will get stuck in many confusing situations in order to become, by His grace, acceptable workers and in many cases fathers of those who will work in the worldwide and end-time harvest of souls.<br><br>Don't you think that God knows that we are dust? As particles of dirt, we come at our problems from a very low perspective --- the depths. Even from the depths of the earth, we serve a God who rides on the clouds and belly laughs at the silly plots of the high and mighty kings who rule the earth. No matter how powerfully they manipulate the world system to suit their aims --- The Lord will maintain His rightful claim over the earth and His people! <br><br>Our personal struggles empty us of our pride and self-reliance. It also very effectively shows us who our true friends are. It reveals the real nature of the call to follow Jesus --- the Cross. It teaches us what it really means to be called one of His disciples. As I have said before,&nbsp;“How can you make a disciple of Jesus unless you are one yourself?”<br><br>All the words I write are but a weak attempt to convey&nbsp;“my struggle to obey God”. We all are on a march to glory, no matter how crappy we feel about our lives at various points of struggle and hardship, no matter how painful our circumstances, the Lord is right there to help us -- no matter what you feel or think! Mighty deliverances are ours if we faint not. The Captain of our Salvation was made perfect by the things He suffered, so will we be made perfect by the things we suffer. Heb.2:10<br><br>Press on my dear fellow soldier of the cross. The cross is the epitome of personal and public embarrassment, and at the same time, the cross is the most powerful work of deliverance ever accomplished for mankind. Our real crimes against the perfect law of God caused Jesus to be embarrassed publicly, why shouldn't we suffer in some small way like our Savior? <br><br>No matter what happens to you, even the most “personal” and painful of situations, continue to chase after Him and the promotion of His everlasting kingdom. If this writing finds you flat on your face today, then turn your gaze upward to the God who cares so much for you, do it quickly, and do it now! As you seek the Lord today, mediate with me on the verse of a song I love to sing in times of deep despair:<br><br><br>“Turn your eyes upon Jesus,<br>look full in His wonderful face,<br>and the things of earth<br>will look strangely dim<br>in the eyes of His glory and grace.”<br><br><br>Many blessings,<br><br><br>Jonathan</span><br></span><br>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 21:24:27 +0100Spiritual Declension Defined / Renewal Explainedhttp://llifellowship.yolasite.com/index/spiritual-declension-defined-renewal-explained
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<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%">Over the
last few years I have come to realize a measure of decline in my determination and drive to take the message
of the cross to our lost and dying world. At the outset of my call to preach I had so much fire in my belly I could not but preach, sadly, as the Word predicts, decline comes and the passion fades.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%">Back in 2012
I asked the Lord to reveal to me the state of my heart. We had moved back to NJ, I was tired physically and emotionally, and I knew I was spiritually
sleepy to the needs of the world around me.&nbsp;</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 19.97333335876465px;">My oldest daughter Jenna just asked me to come and speak to her college bible study group. At the point of her invitation I realized that the Lord put it on her heart to make this request for reasons I had yet to discern.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%"><br><br>As I
meditated on what to say to these kids I came to see that I was sliding away
from my original calling. The scriptures command us to preach the Word in
season and out of season, clearly I sensed I was out of season. So I started to fan the
flame a bit. This led to a series of revelations that I want to share today.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%">These words
come from a man who experienced much spiritual revelation from 2004 – 2010,
during this period I was very sensitive to the impulse of the Spirit of God,
whatever He said to my spirit I did, for the most part.&nbsp;</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 19.97333335876465px;">After some serious financial setbacks from 2008 – 2011, my heart grew tired and faint toward this radical way of being. I stopped caring so much and went into a place of hiding.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%"><br><br>Today I want
to share with you the contrast of spiritual life and spiritual death as the Lord revealed
them to me:<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br>When awakened, God is everywhere and present.&nbsp;<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br>Declension starts with distraction from God’s call and leads
to a cold heart<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br>When the work of grace touches your heart it burns white hot<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br>In decline, the fire turns into a smoldering wick.<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br>At the height of the revelation you sense you are high atop
the mountain.<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br>Decline comes when you perceive your weakness, overwhelmed, you willingly allow the enemy to mire you in the sea of despair.<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br>When you are alive to God, your way is clear to you, black is black
and white is white.<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br>Declension comes when you entertain a middle ground, ending
in bad choices.<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br>At the apex of your call into ministry you see and discern
need easily.<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br>In decline you simply walk by clear need and spiritual
opportunity.<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br>When the call comes, revelation rolls into your heart without
bound.<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br>On the backside of your awakening God’s word seems distant
and disconnected from your life.<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br>When God awakens you Mountains move at your command.<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br>In the depths you see an ant hill of Satan’s work and you
leave it be.<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br>Satan and Hell are confronted in the days of life and
vitality.<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br>When you are tired and in decline you hide and retreat from
any confrontation</span></p><p></p>
<p><br></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%">Today as I seek the Lord for the full restoration of my call to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom, my prayer is that the Lord would use these words to help you in whatever place you find yourself. <br><br>When your heart is hot, realize that coldness will come at some point in the future. It is here in the cold you have to reach into the treasure chest of God's Word, seek out those precious promises that the Lord has revealed to you in your new birth.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%">Renewal is experienced in these steps:</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;
text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"></p><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Starts with stopping – pulling away
from the way you are heading<br></span><br><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Presumption is set to the side – self
justification is put away<br></span><br><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">The process of peeling back the onion
of your life begins<br></span><br><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Re-release all your worldly
possessions plus your time<br></span><br><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">You are willing to start all over
again<br></span><br><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Re-educate yourself in all that pertains
to God<br></span><br><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Establish a new way to fulfill your
original calling<br></span><br><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Seek connection only with life-giving
things<br></span><br><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Re-recognizes the momentary nature of
time<br></span><br><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Urgency
is reestablished in your life with purpose<br></span><br><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Clarity
emerges – murky waters become more clear<br></span><br><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Order
is created in your life – a process – step by step<br></span><br><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Start
to re-enter the front lines of the battle<br></span><br><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Fear
starts to abate<br></span><br><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Positive
motion – no wasted effort much less futility of thought<br></span><br><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Miracles
start to manifest again<br></span><br><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Confirmations
pop up all around you</span><br><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 19.97333335876465px;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Your
world starts to change to the positive – new faith filled thoughts are established</span><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">May the Lord
bless you today. I share these things with you from a heart that has been tested and tried over a 30 plus year walk with our succoring Savior and King. </span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Time reveals that we will experience many
afflictions, some of our own making, but the Lord promises to deliver us from them all.
Even our own bad choices can be turned around into a blessing.&nbsp;</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Abram felt so desperate when famine struck the Land of His promises that he fled to Egypt. There is did nothing but put himself and his precious Sarah into harm's way. But the Lord delivered him miraculously, eventually he found his miracle babyIsaac in the womb of his post-</span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 19.97333335876465px;">menopausal</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">&nbsp;wife.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%">So let's keep our
eyes fixed (<i>turn away from other things</i>)
on Jesus the author and finisher (perfect or) of our faith. <br><br>The word here for “finish”
or “perfect” of our faith is only used here in this verse. It would do us good
to focus on the true meaning of this word. I leave that to your personal study.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%"></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%">Shalom,</span></p><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%">Jonathan</span></p><p></p><p></p>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 19:48:35 +0100Origin of Jesus - Part 3http://llifellowship.yolasite.com/index/origins-of-jesus-part-3
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Origin of Jesus – Part 3<br><br><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">Read parts 1 and 2 by using search bar on this website</span><br></span><br><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">===</span></span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="line-height: normal;">As sons of the Living God, we are summoned by heaven to boldly witness to all the things that we
have seen or heard. &nbsp;Any man or woman of God, prophet, and apostle, upon their occasion of witnessing something of the glories of heaven, will agree that heaven's glory eclipses any glory</span></font><font style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="line-height: normal;">&nbsp;we see on the earth.</span></font></span><br><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br><font style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="line-height: normal;">All attest to the same reality of the sheer magnitude of the glory of God, those
who have wrestled with reality of the breadth of the glory of God are never the same.
&nbsp;With the anthem of heaven ringing in their sacred ears, they seek to tune their ears to hear
His voice.&nbsp; </span></font><br><br><font style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="line-height: normal;">The intense struggle to<b> know</b> God
then becomes the front and rear guard of our saving faith. Heaven is
our goal and our reward, if we are at the place where we can garner just a small glimpse of heaven's glory in our pursuit of knowing at deeper level the person and work of Jesus of Nazareth, if this desire to know God is in us at all it will animate us to
continue forward on to the state of being forever in the Glory in which He dwells at the right hand of the Father.&nbsp;</span></font></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">If you take the time to meditate on the life and experience of any man or woman of biblical history, those who were led to speak for God, those who have seen the Lord of Glory, in each of cases you will discover each man or woman has a firm grasp on the profoundness of the call to be
found faithful and complete their assignment to present the Truth of God's message of salvation. They will sense that their entrance into the glory depends on the accuracy of their presentation. <br><br></span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you,&nbsp;</span><span class="criteria" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border-style: solid solid dotted; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(158, 11, 15); border-width: 0px 0px 1px; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(158, 11, 15); font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;">let</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">&nbsp;</span><span class="criteria" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border-style: solid solid dotted; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(158, 11, 15); border-width: 0px 0px 1px; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(158, 11, 15); font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;">him</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">&nbsp;</span><span class="criteria" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border-style: solid solid dotted; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(158, 11, 15); border-width: 0px 0px 1px; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(158, 11, 15); font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;">be&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);"></span><span class="criteria" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border-style: solid solid dotted; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(158, 11, 15); border-width: 0px 0px 1px; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(158, 11, 15); font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;">accursed</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">." Gal 1:18</span></i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><br><br>The revelation of God in Christ is indomitable.&nbsp;
Unmitigated in its purity. Its steel is of its unpretentious truth. All the glory contained
moves our hearts upward and onward toward the very face of God.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><br></span></span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">----</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">Now we enter the personal side
of this discussion.&nbsp; The same power that resided in Christ Jesus, rests inside your heart today, if you have trusted exclusively in His work of dying on your behalf and being raised for your justification. In this exclusive exercise of your will to Christ, the same Spirit that quickened His
mortal body from death to life, resides in your heart and life today.&nbsp; That is, if you have
confessed with your mouth and believed in your heart that Jesus Christ is the
Son of God.&nbsp; The confession that Jesus is the Son of God makes or breaks
your destiny, we live or die by rightly understanding the person of Jesus and by our public
confession of that knowledge. &nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">I Jn.5:1,&nbsp;<i>“<b>Whoever believes
that</b>&nbsp;<b>Jesus is the Christ -- is born of God</b>&nbsp;and everyone
who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.”</i></span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">Could He be the Creator of
all that is in heaven and earth and not be God in all of HIs entirely?&nbsp; Yet scripture plainly
states that Jesus is Son of God.</span>&nbsp; <br><br><i style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt;">Mt. 17:5,&nbsp;“...and suddenly a
voice came out of the cloud, saying, 'This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased, Hear Him.”&nbsp;</i>&nbsp;<br><br><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">If He was born of God, how could He at the same
time be the incarnate God? &nbsp;</span></span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">Now I want you to pause with me
and settle your anxious mind and with me lets move our attention backward to the creation of
Adam.&nbsp; The first man, Adam, was made in the sacred and holy design of the G-d the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Jesus, Our Christ, was there at the point of
creation. Not as Jesus but as the Christ, otherwise there would be no creation like unto the likeness of the first Adam.
As the creator of the universe, but primarily in the creation of man, Our Christ knew that one day He would
occupy that same flesh formed from the dust of the earth He was to make by the
word of His mouth. Without that understanding there would have been no Adam.</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span"><font><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">Just as Adam was made perfect,
so was Jesus made perfectly inside of Mary's womb.&nbsp; It was if the “time”
clock had been turned back to the very same point that the G-d created
Adam.&nbsp; Because Jesus was in an amazing creative action working as the co-creator with G-d,
He is author of all things in heaven and in earth, He, our Messiah, and our
Jesus, is able to unravel Satan's plans to destroy humanity's destiny as heirs of G-d's promises to His Son and as co-governors&nbsp;over all creation. </span><br><br><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">This
battle for supremacy with Satan rages on, we will win as we&nbsp;</span></font><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px; line-height: normal;">appropriate the reality of</span><font style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="line-height: normal;">&nbsp;His bodily resurrection, which is ours by faith, and by continually accessing His victory over death and applying this power daily to our human experience.</span></font></span></span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;"></span></p><p><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">By taking on the form of a man,
the form of a bond-servant, Our Lord Jesus accomplished a perfect
redemption of His people.&nbsp; Where Adam failed us, by submitting to the lies of Satan, in our destiny to inherit our authority with G-d the Father, Jesus would perform the resurrection of our lost state and succeed in obeying all of the
revealed will of the Father by willingly living a perfect life of obedience and then choosing to lay His perfect life down into the arms of the Father.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">The Word says that He put one
form aside to take on another.&nbsp; It does not say that Jesus changed nature
or quality as Divine, but His form!&nbsp; We too must understand what we
“really are” as humans.&nbsp; We are not just bodies but spirits that have an
eternal destiny.&nbsp; Souls that must be spiritually redeemed from our dead fleshy bodies.</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i>Phil. 2:6-7,&nbsp;“who being in
the very form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with G-d, but
made Himself of no reputation, <b>taking on
the form of a bond-servant</b>, and coming in the likeness of man.” &nbsp;</i></span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Jesus put off His form as
ultimate authority in heaven, and in God Father essence, exchanged that high place of ultimate
authority, for the form of a lowly man that He had originally created perfect.&nbsp; In doing so, He lost nothing of His glory, power, and authority.&nbsp;
<br><br>Remember the Mount of Transfiguration?&nbsp; There on that mount, Jesus lifted
back the fleshy veil that covered His glory and Peter, James, and John did not
want to move from that place. This is our eternal haven, basking in the Glory
of the Son and being One with Him as He governs the affairs of the universe.
&nbsp;Awesome.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.5pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:20.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"></span></span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">Notice with me Ps. 8:5-6,&nbsp;</span><i style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt;">“For
you have <b>made Him</b> a little lower than
the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor.&nbsp; You made him
to have dominion over the works of works of Your hands; You have put all things
under his feet.” </i>&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">Why is man been so endowed with
such a high place of glory and honor as God's image bearer on planet earth? For it was the glory of God the Father to raise man above and beyond the earth realm to
the heights of heaven at some point in the future to the eternal state with His Son. &nbsp;We must believe that the
reality of Adam's sin did no way contradict the plan of God to eternally
commune with “mankind” through His Son.&nbsp; That all believing men and women
and children will be eternally with G-d inside of all that is God -- as God.
&nbsp;</span><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Col.3:1-4 <span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt;">"</span></span></i><i><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt;">If then you were&nbsp;raised with Christ, seek
those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of
God.&nbsp;Set your mind on things above, not on things on
the&nbsp;earth.&nbsp;For you died,&nbsp;and <b>your life is hidden with Christ in
God</b>.&nbsp;When Christ&nbsp;who is&nbsp;our life appears, then you also will
appear with Him in&nbsp;glory.&nbsp;</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma"></span></span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></p><p><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">Jesus, by making man propitious and glorious through His earthly obedience, prepared the way through His glorious
incarnation, when He did so, did not reduce any of His Power and authority,
no, He perfectly maintained His authority as G-d's Son by being an obedient
servant of His Father's will to enter our realm in the dignity of the original
man, made in G-d's image but with G-d's power to obey perfectly.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;"></span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">---</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">How then, my dear friends, will
we gain our authority today in God? &nbsp;Simply by walking as He walked through the endued power of
His Spirit as we by faith access His eternal work by faith. We come to this place by falling on our cross of self-government and by letting His resurrection power perform in us the grace of what Jesus did for us in His perfect life. We must die to self and become a bond-slave of God to gain this power to live above our circumstances. <br><br>We must give up
on ourselves and our proclaimed righteousness, die to our high place as our own
god, to deny our regal place on planet earth as a man verses an animal and do what animal has the sense to do but to “die” to our self-aggrandizing
plans as men, take on the form of bond-slave, and in turn, become like Jesus
conformed to God's image in the place of self-resignation. &nbsp;</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></p><p><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal;">In the same manner as Jesus came
as a baby, so must we, as a son or daughter of G-d, become brand new. &nbsp;
Jn.3:5,&nbsp;<i style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt;">“I say to you, unless one is&nbsp;</i></span><i style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt;"><b style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal;">born of water and the Spirit</b><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt;">,
he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.”&nbsp;&nbsp;It is a rebirth in every
possible way!</span></i></span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">This is the order of the eternal
way -- life itself.&nbsp; By our confession of His Name and our trust in His
power to save us from our sins, you and I gain the same powerful origin in the Father, His eternal life enters our never dying soul, at that point of supernaturally derived and genuine
faith, at this point we enter into life and we will truly never die. &nbsp;</span><br></span></span></p><div style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><i style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.22;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><br><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 15px;">"The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to
destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more
abundantly."</span></span></i><span style="text-align: center; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 15px;">&nbsp;</span>Jn.
10:10</span></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">Our ultimate destiny is in G-d,
to ultimately go back to Him - Our Creator. &nbsp;He is the source of all
things so He to is the terminus of all things. &nbsp;We must seek with all of
our hearts to occupy a place inside of G-d, to be ONE with G-d. To be sons of
G-d.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Look again at&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Col.3:1-4,&nbsp;<i style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt;">”If you were raised with Christ,
seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand
of G-d.&nbsp; Set your mind on things above, not things on the earth.&nbsp; For
you died, and&nbsp;<b>your life is hidden with Christ in G-d</b>.&nbsp; When
Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.”</i></span></span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 15px;">We are stepping into some really deep water as we allow these thoughts to ruminate in our soul. As G-d's sons and daughters we are connected to our older
Brother Christ Jesus forever, by virtue and only by virtue of our very real and
living faith in Him.</span> &nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Where does that place you and
me?&nbsp; <br><br>Make no mistake on this point, what we have obtained by faith as a child of the
Living G-d is so big, so boundlessly massive, that words of any language
pale in providing the proper understanding of our inheritance in Him.&nbsp;
Forever in the G-d with Christ.&nbsp; Seated in heavenly places forever to
enjoy the perfections of all that is pure and right, forevermore!</span><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;<br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Heb.2:11-13,&nbsp;<i style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt;">“For&nbsp;</i></span><i style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt;"><b style="font-size: 14pt;">both
He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified</b><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt;">&nbsp;</span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">are all of one</b><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt;">,
for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, 'I will
declare Your name to My brethren, I</span><u style="font-size: 14pt;">n the midst of the assembly</u><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt;">&nbsp;I
will sing praise to you.'&nbsp; And again, 'I will put My trust in Him,'&nbsp;
And again, 'Here I am and the children whom G-d has given Me.&nbsp; Inasmuch
then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><u style="font-size: 14pt;">He Himself
likewise shared in the same,</u><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt;">&nbsp;that through death He might destroy him
who had the power of death, that is, the devil.”&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>Skip down to verse
16,&nbsp;“For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to
the seed of Abraham.”</span></i></span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">In our new position in Christ,
our elder brother, we are now inside the being of God the Father who loved us and bought us with
the eternal blood of His only begotten Son to dwell with Him forever. He is a forever God. This is how be get a seat with Him on His throne in
heavenly places. When He took on our likeness, human flesh, and
associated with our weakness and overcame them by being faithful and perfect in
all His doings. &nbsp; By virtue of this mighty work, we now obtain rightful inheritance
with Him as a glorified human now seated at the right hand of the Father.&nbsp; <br><br>Our destiny is so
incredible.&nbsp; We have this inheritance already if we have the Holy
Spirit.&nbsp; The Holy Spirit is our down payment of the ultimate place we
inherit.&nbsp; We will judge the world in righteousness and all the angels of
God, with Jesus.</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Why do I make such a big deal
about the understanding of our position in God?&nbsp; <br><br>Why am I laboring so to make the point about the identity of Jesus Christ?&nbsp; If you miss this,
you will miss it all!&nbsp; We are living in a time when the enemy of our souls will be working extra hard to deceive the nations that Jesus was not God's Only begotten Son
that He is here again wanting us to believe He is ruling through the will of the Anti-christ's false son, that the historical Jesus was just a great prophet or a good man pointing to the false Christ. <br><br>We will see the confusion that
the typical teaching fostered by the Catholic church regarding the doctrine of
the Trinity. In this teaching we have to be careful not to diminish the only God the Father
to something like unto the false 3-headed heathen gods of Rome and Egypt. &nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">If Jesus is anything less than
G-d's Son, He cannot save us!&nbsp; We are doomed!&nbsp; In the days ahead,
more and more men will compromise on the fact of all facts, that Jesus was
God's only begotten Son and is with the Father now and forevermore!&nbsp; Don't fall for the lies of His appearing in any fashion less than as the King of the Universe, He will come back as the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Hold fast to your faith in the original historical person of Jesus who is also the anointed Christ of Father.</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">He came to give His life a
ransom for many.&nbsp; To save us not only from our sins and eternal judgment,
but to make us just like Him, as the new Adam of G-d.&nbsp; He is our governor
now, not the old Adam with our birth in sin and death, but our now in our surety-ship
and governorship we are solidly based in the new Adam -- Jesus Christ. Forever we
will worship Him before and in His Eternal throne.</span><br></span></p><div style="text-align: start;" class="yui-wk-div"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="text-align: center; font-size: 14pt;"><br>Rev.
5:8-14 <i>"Now when He had taken the scroll,&nbsp;the four living creatures and the
twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden
bowls full of incense, which are the&nbsp;prayers of the saints.&nbsp;</i></span><i><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rev&amp;c=5&amp;t=NKJVP&amp;x=14&amp;y=13" class="" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;color:windowtext;text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none">9</span></a><span style="text-align: center; font-size: 14pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;And&nbsp;they sang a new song, saying:</span></i></span></div><p></p><p></p><p></p>
<p align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 12px;"><i style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">"You
are worthy to take the scroll,&nbsp;</span></i><i style="line-height: 18pt; font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">And
to open its seals;&nbsp;</span></i><i style="line-height: 18pt; font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">For
You were slain,&nbsp;</span></i><i style="line-height: 18pt; font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">And&nbsp;have
redeemed us to God&nbsp;by Your blood&nbsp;</span></i><i style="line-height: 18pt; font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">Out
of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,&nbsp;</span></i><i style="line-height: 18pt; font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">And
have made us&nbsp;kings&nbsp;and&nbsp;priests to our God;&nbsp;</span></i><i style="line-height: 18pt; font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">And
we&nbsp;shall reign on the earth."&nbsp;</span></i><i style="line-height: 18pt; text-indent: 22.5pt; font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">&nbsp;Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many
angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number
of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of
thousands,&nbsp;saying with a loud voice:&nbsp;</span></i><i style="line-height: 18pt; font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">"Worthy
is the Lamb who was slain&nbsp;</span></i><i style="line-height: 18pt; font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">To
receive power and riches and wisdom,&nbsp;</span></i><i style="line-height: 18pt; font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">And
strength and honor and glory and blessing!"&nbsp;</span></i><i style="line-height: 18pt; text-indent: 22.5pt; font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">And&nbsp;every creature which is in heaven and on
the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in
them, I heard saying:&nbsp;</span></i><i style="line-height: 18pt; font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">"Blessing
and honor and glory and power&nbsp;</span></i><i style="line-height: 18pt; font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">Be</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">&nbsp;to
Him&nbsp;who sits on the throne,&nbsp;</span></i><i style="line-height: 18pt; font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">And
to the Lamb, forever and ever!"</span></i></span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:15.75pt"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i><b>Then the four living creatures said, "Amen!" And the
twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped&nbsp;Him who lives forever and
ever."&nbsp;</b></i></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"></span></span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></b></p><p><b style="font-size: 11px;">&nbsp;</b></p><p></p>
<p align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma">No wonder the angels were singing like crazy as His birth on the hills
of Palestine... they knew what we was coming to all of us who believe.</span></b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"></span></span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">&nbsp;<br>
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">So when Jesus was birthed from the womb of Mary, God's Son knew exactly the content of His holy assignment from the Father.&nbsp; There
was and eternal, very intimate, cooperation before the creation of man.&nbsp;Amazing.
&nbsp;<br><br>If no cooperation between the Father and His only Son we would have no creation of Adam due to the reality of
his future sinful decision to disobey the Lord's simple command to not eat the
fruit of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The Father established a
plan and His Son was eternally conceived birthed to perform the work of eternal salvation for mankind. The Son of G-d was created by and in G-d the Father to save humans.
&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:20.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"></span></span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></p><p><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal;">Therefore the person of Jesus is the
only real and true connection to heaven.&nbsp; He is the way, the truth, and the
life.&nbsp; He is the door, quite profoundly, He is the only door to
heaven, perfect life, and peace! &nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">He came to reveal the Father's
heart to all men no matter what nationality or culture.&nbsp; All men will see His exploits as King of kings one day soon.&nbsp; This Gospel of the Kingdom of G-d and
Jesus Christ as L-rd of the Kingdom will be preached to all nations and then the
end will come.&nbsp; (Mt.24:14)&nbsp; <br><br>He waits for us to wake up to what He is so
concerned about -- the salvation of men.</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">This meditation should reveal
that we must have the mind of Christ in order to gain a beautiful and saving understanding of
the salvation that has been wrought for us from the Father.&nbsp; <br><br>Our meditations on the amazing truth place us in good company, our
forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the holy men of this historical faith also meditated on the same glorious things and the words they heard from the Angel of YHWH in ancient times.&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">See youtube channel
"livinlattes" search for videos on Angel of the Lord. In these videos
we briefly discuss the reality of the Christ before He became flesh and dwelt
among us. We learn that all the ancients knew about the glory of G-d in the
face of Our Messiah.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
9.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><br></span><span style="font-size:20.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"></span></span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">Only the Spirit of G-d can
impart the understanding of which I speak and write.&nbsp; In Rom. 8:11,&nbsp;<i style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">“But
if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who
raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through&nbsp;<b>His
Spirit who dwells in you</b>.”&nbsp;</i></span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">A right understanding of work of
the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is very central to our faith and to our
salvation.&nbsp; If we let this truth slip into any form of gnostic thought, as our 1st
century forefathers experienced, and take our focus off the person and work of Jesus and instead place our focus on the peripheral issues of church life,
such as, the quality of our worship music, healing the sick, speaking in tongues, our building, our style of
preaching, and our outreach and evangelism methods, so on and so forth. &nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>In these dark times the ministry that take great care in putting all their attention on the Chief Cornerstone of the church - Jesus Christ, will have a real value no matter how many frequent their gatherings.&nbsp;</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;"></span></p><p><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">If we lose context of the
identity of the Chief Cornerstone of the temple of G-d made without hands, we
put at peril our eternal inheritance.&nbsp; He will not bless our work
eternally, we may experience some temporary rewards in this life, but they will
not survive the fire of His judgment.&nbsp;</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 12px;">Cor. 3:11-14,</span>&nbsp;<span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt;"><i>“For no other foundation can anyone lay than
that which is laid, which his Jesus Christ.&nbsp; Now if anyone builds on this
foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one's
work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be
revealed by fire, and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it
is.&nbsp; If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a
reward.”</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">Let not the rationality of man
rule our minds, if you allow human reason and logic to rule your mind, you will
lose your way.&nbsp; Only the Spirit of God merging with your spirit can
communicate these sacred things.&nbsp; We must be born again in order to commune with God in spirit and truth.&nbsp; <br><br>If
you trust in your mind, stagnation will set into your heart and you will resort to human techniques to build and prepare the Bride for the Great Wedding Day coming very soon. Your work will
be fruitless and void of blessing.&nbsp; It will not survive the fire of His
judgment, you will lose your reward, you may be saved but you will not carry great rewards with you to eternity.</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Let us just agree that it is
good for Our Father to come and prune our lack of understanding.&nbsp; It is
then and only then that we will thrive in the way of living the life we have
been called to live in Christ serving in His kingdom and on His earth.&nbsp;
Our depth of understanding will make our journey to glory that much more
enjoyable, especially when the long dog days come.&nbsp; When we wrestle with the truth
of Jesus in all of His identity and work, we discover aspects of the truth that will inspire us to preach
the Message with more authority, with greater pathos, and we will persevere to
the end, even though many afflictions and trials assail us!</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">We must hold fast to the actual
teaching of scripture of the supernatural creation of man or we just might lose
our way in Jesus Christ – the very son of God.&nbsp; That God,
through the Word, breathed the breath of life, eternal life, into the soul of
man, and did so at the point of his exercise of true faith, this for all of time and eternity, to have us as co-heirs with His Son. &nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">In the new birth we possess
eternity in our hearts through His indwelling our being. If we take hold of the tree of life found in the person and work of Jesus Christ we will grow in grace and knowledge of Him. The knowledge of God increases our faith and our ability to extend our reach into the dark places in this world. Oh how sad
things get when men do not protest the foolishness of people who deny the
proper place of Our Messiah -- Jesus Christ. &nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">We cannot, and we will not, suffer any compromise on these very essential life and death points of doctrine of our faith!</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">In Much Earnestness,</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>Jonathan&nbsp;</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></p><p><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 11px;">&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>Wed, 28 May 2014 22:10:15 +0100Adversity - Are we ready?http://llifellowship.yolasite.com/index/adversity-are-we-ready-
<p><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Adversity – Are we
ready? 2014</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Repost from 2008<br><br></span></b><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, 'sans serif'; vertical-align: top; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">If</em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">&nbsp;you faint in the day of&nbsp;</span><span class="criteria" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border-style: solid solid dotted; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(158, 11, 15); border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, 'sans serif'; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(158, 11, 15); font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">adversity</span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">Your strength&nbsp;</span><em id="yui-gen51" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, 'sans serif'; vertical-align: top; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">is</em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 218);">&nbsp;small. Prov. 24:10<br></span><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br>---</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In Psalm 91:14-16 we
have a beautiful account of God's faithfulness to protect a saint, one who has
sanctified the Lord always in his heart. A man, woman, or child that has made
the Lord of Heaven his love and his refuge.&nbsp; The Lord is able even at the
latest hour to save those who have put their trust in Him.&nbsp; Let's read the
words of Ps. 91 with great care,&nbsp;<br>
</span><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon"><br>
“<b>Because&nbsp;</b>he has&nbsp;<u>set his love</u>&nbsp;upon Me, therefore I
will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My Name.&nbsp;
He shall call upon Me, and&nbsp;<u>I will answer him</u>; I will be with him in
trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.&nbsp; With long life I will satisfy
him, and show him My Salvation.”</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the very first
part of this reading you are pressed immediately with this word,
“because”.&nbsp; In verses 9 &amp; 10 of this same Psalm, the writer reveals
another reason why the Lord is going to deliver those who love Him,&nbsp;<br>
</span><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon"><br>
“<b>Because&nbsp;</b>you have made the Lord, who is my&nbsp;<u>refuge</u>, Even
the Most High,&nbsp;<u>your dwelling place</u>, no evil shall befall you,&nbsp;<u>nor
shall a plague come near</u>&nbsp;your dwelling.”<br>
<br>
</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Do you really believe that the Living
God will deliver you from any form of calamity in times of great
adversity?&nbsp;</span><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon"><br>
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<!--[endif]--></span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Are you confident
that if a horrible plague were to visit your community, where almost everybody
dies, that your God would pass over your house and keep you and your family in
His safe care?&nbsp;</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br>Are you that sure and
confident in your obedience to his prescribed will? &nbsp;<br><br>Are you confident of His call upon your
life?&nbsp;</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Have you surrendered
all plans and your self-will to Him?</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br>Testifying to the fact that there is a real
cause to our being delivered in the day of adversity. <br><br>The cause, my friends, is quite
simple and obvious in the context of this psalm, it is because "you" made the Lord your refuge when others did not. <br><br>When your
friends, family, and acquaintances chose to make their church membership and reputation
their trust, their secure job, and their worldly
possessions maintained the place refuge, you, the remnant, held on to the simplicity of faith in the One and
Only Living God.<br>
<br>So let me ask you some sincere open ended questions: <br><br>What if a line of UN sanctioned military tanks were rolling through the center
of your town to insure order in a time of devastation caused by an epic earthquake which released a 100 ft tidal surge in the Atlantic Ocean that destroyed millions of homes on the east coast of America?&nbsp; <br><br>What if an foreign military foe and its army marched
through your neighborhood shooting humans like decoys at a practice range?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Would you trust the
Lord to keep you alive?&nbsp; </span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Would He be the true anchor of Your soul?&nbsp;
</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This is not the product of well-funded special effects movie, this the world's and the remnant's
reality, it will happen someday and the elect of God must get ready firstly in our
hearts, consider what you would do, and then do the work of preparing your mind to face it with a real living assurance that your back is covered by angels of God.</span><br>
<br><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
Ps. 91 was written for times that await the world and the remnant of God to provide them with the much
needed comfort needed in times of great adversity. &nbsp;<br><br>Just because we can't fathom
that these kinds of adversities will visit our shore let's not make the same mistake that our fathers&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px; line-height: 20px;">committed</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&nbsp;in latter days of the kingdom of Israel at the time of the Babylonian captivity. Let's not allow our inability to fathom their occurrence limit their impending
possibility. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Soon, the many who
have lived in times of peace and prosperity will see, with hearts aghast in
shock and horror, so much devastation, even more than our eyes and hearts can
bear. No matter how terrible the circumstances, be assured dear saint of God that His loving care is the true anchor of your soul in times of great emotional turbulence.<br>
<br>
Our heart will bring to the surface our natural born fears which will weaken and totter our senses unless the Lord is Our True emotional support at our right hand.<br><br>He has always maintained the details of our life, even in the good times, so if we don't make
Him our stay and support today we will potentially fall prey to worldwide deception that
masquerades as<b>&nbsp;“government help”</b>&nbsp;and offers to relieve our
horrors. This very thing may soon come all the way to our doorstep.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br>If your faith is not
bound inextricably to your personal commitment to the Lord's care, you will
“give up” on the God of Israel and succumb to the powers of the “gods” of this
age.&nbsp; <br><br>If your heart is fainting because you can not find your faith in
the dark hours, your goose will be
cooked in the day of adversity.&nbsp;</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br>We must take to heart today in the real comfort offered to us in this Psalm and learn from its words that the
kind of people that will experience supernatural salvation in the day of
adversity are those that have made the Lord “our refuge” in the good times, who
now are supernaturally made ready to endure adversity in the terrors of future days.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br>The Word of God
declares that<b>&nbsp;“because”</b>&nbsp;we have loved the Lord in the days of
prosperity, we will be saved from trouble in the harder days to come. &nbsp;<br>
<br>
Will we let God train us today for such a time in the future?</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br>We must dwell in
God's heavenly sanctuary today!&nbsp; We must love Him supremely today!&nbsp;
We must cling to Him with all our strength today!&nbsp; Our trust must be
perfect and exclusive in His Word and promises. We make this claim knowing that
it must be tested by a sober self-examination.&nbsp; If we take the time to struggle
with the challenge of this text, we can be assured that when our world spins
out of control we will be protected by the God of history and supernatural
deliverance s.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br>
To dwell in the secret place of the most high is live a life of staying close all
the time. To live before the eye of God. &nbsp;To walk with Him and to talk
with Him, to take all your burdens and lay them at His feet.&nbsp; To speak of
His Grace and His Love.&nbsp; To know His heart.&nbsp; To love His Law and His
commandments.&nbsp; Jesus said to His disciples, “if you love Me, you will keep
My commandments.”</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br>Call upon the Lord,
and He will answer you in your hour of need.&nbsp; Call upon the God of Israel,
and He will come to your rescue.&nbsp; Because you made Him your refuge, your
dwelling place.&nbsp; Because you have made Him “your” love, He will deliver
you in the day of adversity.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br>Recount all His many
blessings to you this day and worship Him.&nbsp; Walk in His paths of love and
peace.&nbsp; Know His compassion for those who are hurting and in need of His
grace.&nbsp; Be like&nbsp;His Son, who willing laid down His life, His will,
His comfort for you and me, if we learn this way, if we take on His yoke, we
will be “secure” from all kinds of evil.&nbsp; </span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br>Let Him hold you safe
in His arms.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br>In Christian Love,</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="Standard">
</p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jonathan</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 01:13:51 +0100Overcoming frustration in the way of faithhttp://llifellowship.yolasite.com/index/overcoming-frustration-in-the-way-of-faith
<p><b><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" size="4">Dealing with&nbsp;</font><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 22px;">opposition</span></font><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" size="4">&nbsp;in the way of walking by faith!</font></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Any human who spends any amount of time on this planet will experience suffering of some type or sort. Such is the result of the mother of all living making that fateful decision to take of the visibly beautiful fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good AND evil.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="line-height: 1.22;">When any man puts his mind and in turn his fingers to writing on
the topic of suffering, he must first have experienced something of the&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 19px;">uniqueness</span><span style="line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;of the kind of
suffering that is experienced in pursuit of a holy cause.&nbsp;</span></font><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;">To fight for the betterment of humanity with a genuine desire to lift humanity out of misery, to raise up the down fallen and the broken to a higher place of existence. To change perspective from the low pursuit of gain and personal happiness to something of a higher value, something true, something noble, pushing against evil to encourage things to happen beyond that we currently see and which are bigger and of a far better value then what men are experiencing in the current hour.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br><br>This article is for those who have been through the "beat down" as a change maker, those who are in the process of seeking to walk out THE way of faith as a true christian. You have chased God's will and now find yourself riddled and rattled by seemingly unending frustrations and weird turns and twists that most of the time do not make logical sense to our tired human brains.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">If you have stepped out of the mundane and lifted your heart to the heavens and cried for positive change in your family, town, church, or business, most sincere people find themselves confused by the process of delay and nonsensical push-backs at varying points along the way. Some of us have even come to the place where doubt has crept subtly into our mind and we begin to wonder why God, Our incredibly loving Father, lets us feel so much pain deep down in the depths of our soul.<br></span><br><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What we lose in stuff we gain in wisdom and true understanding. At every hard turn, at the point of emotional disappointment and physical pain we&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.7455px;">exercise</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;our faith as a muscle and we develop our faith and our love for our Father in heaven.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What I determine to bring forth
in this article is a perspective on the suffering caused by pursuing high goals that have little to do with your personal comfort. Not the suffering that we create by in a selfish cause, the kind of suffering
associated with a person who provokes evil by imposing his self-will on his
neighbors and eventually experiences the reciprocal effect of the negative societal effect of reaping what they have sowed.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But to be honest, even for this member of humanity there is still hope.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As followers of the Lord of the Kingdom
of Heaven, we must be encouraged that one day soon we will dance in the blood
of our spiritual enemies, those very fortresses of evil that have been commissioned by the Evil One to mete out our
hardship, and on all of God’s people who seek to please Our Father in heaven.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you have never suffered for a
righteous cause then this article is not for you.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I turn to the scriptures for
comfort in times of confusion and uncertainty, many times I am led to scriptures that reveal the realities associated with those men and women who were
called to live a life of faith and a life of resistance against evil. Men and
woman who walk by a different order and in turn live life in a radically different way.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Heb. 11:1-3</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:5.25pt;
line-height:normal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">By Faith We Understand</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:
.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:red">Now faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it&nbsp;</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(faith)<i>&nbsp;</i></span><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:red">the elders obtained
a&nbsp;good&nbsp;testimony. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed
by the word of God&nbsp;</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(not time and circumstance),&nbsp;</span><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:red">so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are
visible.</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Notice how the first section of the
“faith” chapter ends with the phrase,&nbsp;</span><i><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:red">“things which are visible”</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We are in a fix here on earth. We are
constantly bombarded with the things which are<b> seen</b> to the point where we are brought to succumb to submit to a state of numbness to emotional realities of what we are trying to change. Oftentimes we can allow the pressure of the world system
change our perspective and in turn we are tempted to submit to the whims and wiles of materially based
thinking, it is here that we get to the place of being truly frustrated with our circumstances and for some of us we come to the place of wanting to give up.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you have faced these times, you
could almost be tempted to give up entirely on the way of faith, retire back to a life of ease, kick back and take your seat in a pew of some decent church or even your home, resigning yourself to the work of watching others take their stab at radical faith living.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">My dear friends, the reality of what we are facing here on this side of redemption is a calling and life made of such a high level of holy resistance and focus that if we don't stick it out all the way to the grave we will be ashamed at the Day of His appearing. For He, Our Christ has modeled holy resistance and has secured a Seed of faith by virtue of His blood shed on the cross. &nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br><br>Those people of old who walked by a supernatural faith that we are
instructed to emulate in Heb 11, for many of these this continuing on in faith through darkness of multiple setbacks meant
dying a gruesome death at the point of a sword or martyr’s fiery stake of
torture. Thus they earned the right to be mentioned in the faith chapter in Hebrews to encourage us that many have endured much more and stay faithful than we have in our very seductive and dark world today.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If I am tapping into something you feel today, broken and tired, and if this is where you are find yourself today emotionally than you
and I are on the same page and at the same place in our journey.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I made a decision many years to
take a real walk with God. Inspired by the life of Abram and the words found in
Gen 12:1</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now the LORD said to Avram, "Get
out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to
the land that I will show you“</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">HNV Version</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I made that fateful decision to go
for more of God, I wanted to show God my love for Him by doing the <b><i>“what-evers”</i></b>
of the faith walk. I continued to maintain a heartfelt desire to walk straight
into the pages of scripture to find out what it really means to walk by faith
on a experiential level.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" size="3">After I surrender in public, and that with a wife and 5 kids back
in 2004, the rest and three additional kids are&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 19px;">chronicled</span>&nbsp;on this blogsite.</font><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">---</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Have you felt the urge to go for “more”
with God?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I was a young man I went to a couple different christian youth conferences that were filled with words that were presented in
such a way that I felt as if the teaching and preaching were as daggers penetrating into the depths of
my soul, to numb those feelings I fought back through the subsequent years with more religion and better religion, I chose that path to
cloak myself in self-righteousness and a more righteous and churchy way even to the point of spiritual nausea.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">While I was burying God's call in my pathetic religious garments,
I could not resist being the one at our church prayer sessions who prayed with all the real passion I could muster. I prayed for God to move in the world. I prayed for our missionaries to penetrate darkness with bold gospel preaching, and over time and years the feeling in my heart that I thought I buried deep down inside
of me was truly God's effectual whisper urging me to go.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fast forward to today, August 2013, my
life of living by faith is full of frustration, no church home, no real local
Christian friends, my business success in order to make a honest living for a
very large family have been flipped over time and time again, as a result my
heart seems as dull as it was in the earlier days of my Christian pilgrimage
long before those fateful days back in 2001 when I promised to do whatever was <a href="http://llifellowship.yolasite.com/ourstory.php" class="">needed to bring America back to God.</a><br><br></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My conclusion recently is that my
personal setbacks and real marketplace struggles are part of grander narrative
that is based in my original call to walk with God. To live in the wildness of
the unknown tomorrows and to find a way to do it without the emotional ups and
downs.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To live as a child before the Lord, so
as to avoid the over sophistication of the pretenses found in Our Americanized
version a dualistic materially based Christianity.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">---</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now turning back to the original call
of Abraham.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What in the physical world was before
and around Abraham when God’s invisible voice entered his life and penetrated
down into his heart?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Evil and oppression.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gen 11 tells us of the works of Nimrod
and of his vicious method world government. Nimrod was so harsh he would
exterminate any person who would disagree with him and his laws.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I recommend to you the words from the
book of Jasher that take a deeper look into this time in human history, here
you will learn more of the life of Abraham and the governorship of the wicked
man -- Nimrod.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the book of Jasher we find out that
Abraham was thrown into the fire to be killed by Nimrod because he was
righteous and would not bow down the gods of his fathers. Like Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed Nego, he was miraculously delivered from certain death.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Abram was known as an authentic human
being made in the image of the invisible Creator, the same Creator that Nimrod
hated because his father was Satan himself. Nimrod was the first in a long line
of anti-christ figures found in the pages of human history.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Abraham was set apart from his youth
for God’s service. Abraham was caught between the realities of living in a
world run by darkness and following the Living God. Abraham was a real man of
faith before he ever set his feet to walk to the land of Canaan, the land of
His Promises.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But what of our time?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We live in a similarly demonic time as
when Abraham was alive in the land of Babylon. Our world is so wicked and given
over to idolatry. Our churches are laced with the worship of idols, and this
they do unknowingly.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There is little Gospel power in the
churches, what is power is found to be not according to knowledge, in effect,
we are left in a state of unsureness, because we don’t know how to view the
churches that are growing rapidly in our time, and which seem to be doing the
work of the Great Commission, we are unsure because so much of what is being
taught is not based in an authentic and historically accurate presentation of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whole pieces of the Gospel message are
not brought forth in full clarity and the Spirit and in the Truth are not
joined together. It’s like eating part of the meal and still feeling hungry but
then to find out that those pieces you just ate were the entire meal… something
inside you suggests that you have been cheated out of something, you just don’t
know what it is!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In our modern world, man is set forth
as God, through the means of the ever expanding world of high technology and
sub second worldwide communication, man is seemingly capable of anything,
including communicating with other entities in space.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Knowledge is on the increase both
mystically acquired and in the truths uncovered and gleaned and understood by
the history books and diligent study, this because so much of what was written
is coming to light in this digital age, both the good and the evil.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We are heading out of the time of super
power dominance through military force to a time where nation status is
weakening, and a false peace and a way is being offered to mankind that will
bring humanity to an elevated state of being through worldwide unity of thought
and way of life.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Worldwide Oneness is being setup by
breaking down all cultural differences through a new - yet to be unveiled in
its full expression - religion.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Today we are told that we are part of a
grand experiment of time and circumstance and it is our duty to find oneness
with the universe through meditation, nutritional supplements and diversely
acquired spiritual knowledge from every corner of the earth.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Through knowledge, or a new gnosis, we
are to grow into the image of God the Creator, to find our oneness through a
spiritual pursuit. The unknown and the unseen are now our friend but in the way
of a chasing after a false light, simply put, a Luciferian way. A way that
doesn’t require access through the blood of a perfect Messiah, the One and Only
-- Jesus of Nazareth.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As Solomon said in the book of
Ecclesiastics three millennia ago,&nbsp;</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:red">“there is no new thing
under the sun”</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This kind of one world religion has been
tried time and time again. If you take the time to compare these concepts with
what was going on during the time of the call of Abraham, you will see the same
evil players.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So the same kind of faith is required
of any who would chase after God in order to stay true today as was required in
the days of Abraham.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The same kind of God/man relationship.
The call to Abraham was personal. An all-powerful eternal entity, none other
than the One and Only Triune God, called one of his creation, a human being
made in His image, out of the world system filled with lies, to start anew.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He was called understandably to go to a
certain place on planet Earth to be made a father of a chosen nation who would
obey His holy laws and walk in paths of righteousness. A new earthly community
was to be reestablished, built again in the way of truth and holiness. A place
of true peace and shalom. Where everyone would have his or her share, no one
would have to worry about his stuff being stolen or having his neighbor take
his freedom to live and enjoy his land and his family.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Personal and Loving Creator would
show him why he made man. He made man perfect and he made man for fellowship.
He made man for the Earth. To enjoy life on the planet especially designed for
His and their pleasure.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Voice that called Abraham was
personal and it was according to his understanding as a man. In a language
known to Abraham. To a call that led to a way that made sense in the basic
content of what was being presented.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No mystery other than where the actual
dwelling place for his clan and the timing of the divine blessing that was
promised to come.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The way of faith was based in receiving
a known promise that would be experienced in an unknown place, the way of faith
required adherence to the word of promise, not based in the physical sight of a
blessed and beautiful place.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Satan when tempting Our Lord Yeshua
used physical things to tempt our Lord to worship Him. He lifted up Jesus in
the spirit realm and showed Him all the nations and their opulence, saying to
Our Precious Savior that if He would simply bow down worship Him that all these
would be His.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">How could Satan actually believe that
something that was already the Lord’s, the nations, planet earth, was his to
offer to His Maker?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What is revealed here is the mind and
the strategy of Satan to bring humans down to judgment.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Satan has been given the nations and
the earth governmental system as his play toy for the here and now. For a given
period of time he has the exclusive right granted to him from Our Lord God in
Heaven to be allowed to play with the minds and hearts of the sons of men.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Why?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To test the hearts and minds of the
sons of men.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We have it all as true sons and
daughters of God. Those of us who have received the word of reconciliation from
heaven, we have the entire earth as our inheritance. We get it all in the end.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But in the meantime Satan is desiring
our worship of him, he uses lots of stuff, material things to allure us, and
also to show us things that we presently don’t have to make us frustrated.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Eph 2:1-3 explains this reality quite
clearly:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:red">You were made alive when you were dead in
transgressions and sins,&nbsp;in which you once walked according to the course
of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who
now works in the sons of disobedience; among whom we also all once lived in the
lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by
nature children of wrath, even as the rest.</span></i><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:red"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:red">HNV Version</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:red"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Satan plays with us even though we are
already blessed as the true sons and daughters of God. Even though we are
sealed for the day of redemption. For the Lord will have a people for Himself,
His sufferings and His real blood shed for His people is a guarantee that a
people will be gathered in That Day.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">---</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So what do we do when circumstances
don’t go our way? When we finally break down and reach to heaven for help we
are reminded who we are, God’s word over us echoes back into our heart, the
Spirit of Christ stirs us to believe again. Believing again in the words of
promise that have been spoken over us and over our material lives here on
Earth. Those things which have been secured by Our Loving Redeemer, and those
words which point to our eternal destiny in Him and in His Love.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Today, let’s realize afresh that we are
always in the pressure cooker of what we see in this world, all of which is
specifically designed by the evil one to make us angry or frustrated with the
clear intent to get us to quit on our blessings to come.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As Our Lord modeled for us in the
Garden of Gethsemane, we must live with our eyes above the things that we can
clearly see are wrong with the world and what is clearly not right with the
church and see by faith the glory of the things that are yet to be revealed in
the sons of God. Those who pass the tests found in this side of the Jordon and
on this side of inheriting the Kingdom of His Righteousness.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">---</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 15px;">At my mother’s funeral, back in May 2002, I was led to meditate on
these words found in Rom 8 and share them with my brothers and sisters and to
all those who were in attendance:</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: red;">The Spirit himself testifies with our
spirit that we are children of God;</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: red;">&nbsp;and if children,
then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Messiah; if indeed we suffer
with him, that we may also be glorified with him. For I consider that the
sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory
which will be revealed toward us. For the creation waits with eager expectation
for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to vanity,
not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the
creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the
liberty of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole
creation groans and travails in pain together until now</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: red;">.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:11.25pt"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">HNV Version</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With that section of scripture before our minds let's take heart dear christian brother and sister, those of you who have taken on the difficult assignments that require more than just looking the part of a christian.<br><br>May His peace and comfort work deep into your soul today, for only through His Spirit can we find that peace that passes understanding.<br><br>Shalom to all of you in Christ’s bonds of
love that are inseparable to those who have been called and separated unto Him
and His Glory.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p>
</p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jonathan</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:01:24 +0100Soul Crucified with Christhttp://llifellowship.yolasite.com/index/soul-crucified-with-christ
<p class="Standard"><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">Can you and I ever get to the place of living in a way where we are constantly winning against the evil on the inside of us and in the world around us? </span><span style="font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></font></p><p class="Standard"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.22; background-color: rgb(234, 221, 189); font-size: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">Is it possible to begin a new life where we are consistently overcoming the seductive temptations that confront us every day in our very fast paced,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">tempestuous&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 26.666667938232422px;">and very pagan&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">society?</span><br><br>The kind of temptations that capture control of our redeemed mind and put us in a mind-numbed&nbsp;</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(234, 221, 189); font-size: 20px;">temporally</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.22; background-color: rgb(234, 221, 189); font-size: 15pt;">&nbsp;based state of being.&nbsp;</span><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;"><br><br>What and where do these sinful temptations emanate from?&nbsp;</span></font><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;"><br><br></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">Many times those nagging sins from the past are able to connect to our natural tendencies to sin against Our Creator's holy law, which keep us from experiencing the true joy and sweet fellowship we desire as born again believers to experience in our daily walk with our Creator and His Son Y'shua.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;"><br><br>The type of overcoming life noted by our Lord in John 16:33<br><br></span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 15px;"><i><span style="line-height: normal;">"These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will&nbsp;</span><a class="ftnt" href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Jhn&amp;c=16&amp;v=31&amp;t=NKJV#fnt/0_0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(50, 67, 149); font-size: 8px; vertical-align: text-top; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal;">[fn]</a><span style="line-height: normal;">&nbsp;have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."</span></i></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;"><br><br>So from the words of Christ we see that it is possible to be set free from the weight and power of these high level temptations? How then do we tap into the supernatural strength God's has promised us in the new birth?&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;"><br><br></span><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">There are times when as true believers in Y'shua we become ensnared by sin patterns that cause us to be frustrated and stuck. Sins that overtake us that we thought were defeated at the point of our conversion to Christ.&nbsp;</span></font><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;"><br><br></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">When these kind of failures pop up,</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;frustration and the associated shame take root in our hearts many times to the point where we might even be tempted to question if we know what it means to be a christian.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;"><br><br>Time and circumstance teach us that we live here on planet earth in a place of war of the soul. Born into the reality of a internal struggle of doing things that cause us to feel shame and regret compared to a life where we consistently overcome the temptations that beset us and others.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;"><br><br></span><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">Many times I have said to myself, "where did that intense temptation come from?" Is an urge to give into temptation the simple byproduct of bad thinking or is it an external shot at our mind from outside of us?&nbsp;</span></font><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;"><br><br></span><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">When we give into old sin patterns that</span></font><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;soak us in shame and drench us in a worldly way of thinking and being, should we retreat to the same way of dealing with these sin patterns, doing things like: building our own righteousness through good deeds, or trying to perform some christian duty with more passion, or should we actually consider a different path to overcoming&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px;">reoccurring</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;sin patterns?&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;"><br><br>If we are honest with ourselves, we need more strength to maintain a mind full of positive thoughts and a life full of positive activity for God and His Kingdom compared to the effort we have put forth in the past. A life tortured by troubled nagging evil thoughts of regret that motivate us to do and say the wrong thing at the wrong time.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;"><br><br>If we are honest we feel and know that deep down in our hearts are the wretched sins of lust, envy, anger, and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;">jealousy</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">, and since these bad things exist within our breast we need more strength than our natural&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;">faculties</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;can offer to gain victory over evil and live a happy and godly life, filled with the joy of positive human relationships and peace.&nbsp;</span><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;"><br><br>Using our natural will power to overcome and defeat the uprising of evil thoughts, such as the subtle sins of self promotion and self&nbsp;aggrandizing will not yield long-term&nbsp;success over these deep seated sins that oftentimes seem to get the best of us.&nbsp;</span></font><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;"><br></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;"><br></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;">Today we must realize that it is time to stop using the same old carnal means to defeat sins of the heart. The work of dying to sin and being renewed in the newness of Christ's resurrection power requires more than human will. Our will without the power of the Holy Spirit can not sustain against those hidden heart-based sin battles we face day by day and hour by hour.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;"><br><br>In order to learn what we must know about ourselves and our hearts, we must learn the nature of the inner workings of our soul to gain a better understanding of what we are really dealing with in our quest to become better people. More holy and more happy.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;"><br><br>Jesus (Y'shua) died to set us free from the daily grind of living soulishly. Before we will be able to gain the victory over our soul sins we have to learn the true division of our human soul and our redeemed spirit man.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;"><br></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;"><br>We must understand that Our Lord Y'shua also had to live and breathe with the same emotional challenges we face every moment of every day as a soul-based human being. The difference between us and Jesus (Y'shua) is that He batted a thousand for 33 years against those same inner struggles to sin in thought word and deed, thoughts and manner of living that defeat us every moment of every day.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><br><br></span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><i>For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all [points] tempted as [we are, yet] without sin.</i></span><i><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">. Heb. 4:15</span></i></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><br><br>We can imply from this scripture that Jesus wrestled with his soul man. We can indirectly discern that the soul is a distinct part of man. It represents
our emotions, motives, intelligence, rationale, logic, culture, family
upbringing, political bent, sensitivities, likes, dislikes, an</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 20px;">d our cultural influences.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the [life] which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Gal.2:20</i></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><br><br><i>note:</i><br></span><span style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Our accomplishments, positive inclinations to do good, and our God-given talent are Divinely granted gifts, but when we look at our credentials instead of the cross of Christ, we don't tap into His Divine power inside of us. We don't walk as He walked when we decide to trust in our gifts and talents and we sin against the blood of Jesus and the soul transformation intended for us in the NEW covenant.</i></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><br><br>What I am offering to you all today is a way to defeat the soul which is a part of man's being, a part of our natural man AND the apostle Paul clearly states in Gal 2:20 that its wants and desires must be crucified.&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;">Our soul can be influenced by what the scripture call the “carnal mind” which refers to our natural bent toward sin as is spoken of in Rom. 8:7, where we are told is at enmity with God and His Holy Spirit and His holy laws.</span><i><span style="font-size: 15pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);"><br><br><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">“Because the
carnal mind&nbsp;is&nbsp;enmity
against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be”.</span></span></i><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">See
also Gal. 5:17:</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"></p><p><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.22;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">“For the flesh
lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh;&nbsp;</span></i><i style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.22;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">and these are
contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.”</span></i></span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">So
in our natural state, outside of the grace of God's power on the inside of us, we cannot please God or ourselves. God’s law is perfectly
right and good. His Torah (teaching) works when followed and our soul naturally fights the righteous influence of the law of God.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Our
soul left to itself, without instruction, will ultimately destroy our way and bring us down to Sheol. Without a Divine intrusion and the power that comes from the Holy Spirit we cannot
put away the works of the flesh as mentioned in Gal. 5:17</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">What
then are we to do to gain the victory and live a more productive life and experience better relationships in our home, neighborhood, church, and in our world?</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;">Left to our natural state, post the fall in Eden, we are mired in a&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;">mi lase</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;">&nbsp;of screwed up emotions and left to ourselves we can not find our way out all our tangled strands of conflicted emotions.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">You may protest and say, “I’m not a bad person” I haven't cheated anybody or
murdered anyone, I don't lie, well, too much. When we are tempted we will think bad thoughts, you and I&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px;">inherently</span><span style="font-size: 15pt;">&nbsp;know that deep in the hidden recesses of our hearts dwell all kinds of evil thoughts that rise to the surface when we are slighted, slandered, mistreated, and so forth.</span></font></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Even
as these words of self-justification roll over your tongue you are lying to
yourself and to God. The law of God calls even your slightly jealous and covetous thoughts as evil
workings of the flesh.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">In
the book of James we discover the most succinct description of why we have a
hard time with relationships in the world and in the Body of Christ.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Meditate
with me on James 1:1-6</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:21.0pt;
text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:TrebuchetMS;mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;
color:maroon">Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come
from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? </span></i><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
TrebuchetMS;mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;color:maroon;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Jam&amp;c=4&amp;t=NKJVP&amp;x=8&amp;y=12#" class="">2</a>&nbsp;</span></i><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:TrebuchetMS;
mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;color:maroon">You lust and do not have. You
murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have
because you do not ask. </span></i><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
TrebuchetMS;mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;color:maroon;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Jam&amp;c=4&amp;t=NKJVP&amp;x=8&amp;y=12#" class="">3</a>&nbsp;</span></i><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:TrebuchetMS;
mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;color:maroon">You ask and do not receive,
because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. </span></i><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
TrebuchetMS;mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;color:maroon;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Jam&amp;c=4&amp;t=NKJVP&amp;x=8&amp;y=12#" class="">4</a>&nbsp;</span></i><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:TrebuchetMS;
mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;color:maroon">Adulterers and adulteresses! Do
you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever
therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. </span></i><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
TrebuchetMS;mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;color:maroon;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Jam&amp;c=4&amp;t=NKJVP&amp;x=8&amp;y=12#" class="">5</a>&nbsp;</span></i><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:TrebuchetMS;
mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;color:maroon">Or do you think that the
Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns
jealously"</span></i></p>
<p class="Standard" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:21.0pt;
text-autospace:none"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Jam&amp;c=4&amp;t=NKJVP&amp;x=8&amp;y=12#" class=""><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
TrebuchetMS;mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;color:maroon;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none">6 </span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:TrebuchetMS;
mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;color:maroon">But He gives more grace.
Therefore He says:</span></i></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:21.0pt;
text-autospace:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:TrebuchetMS;mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;
color:maroon">"God resists the proud,</span></i></b></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:21.0pt;
text-autospace:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:TrebuchetMS;mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;
color:maroon">But gives grace to the humble."</span></i></b></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">How
can we then live a peace filled life in this world where every human has the same propensity to sin?&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The
only way to achieve peace in world gone crazy with conflict is through the acquiring of special grace outside of ourselves that gives us the necessary power to overcome the works of the flesh. This power comes through the ministry of the Holy Spirit which comes to us through an open confession of our sin.&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><i style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">If we&nbsp;</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">confess</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">our</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">sins</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">, He is faithful and just to forgive us [</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">our</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">]</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">sins</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I Jn 1:9</span></i><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><br><br>Only
by His power we are able to apply the power of holiness and right behavior at the point of any temptation. If we are left alone without help from above us, we will fail. Our natural sinful propensity to
indulge our human soul feelings is very powerful and will beat us every time we use the flesh to defeat them, so in the end we are absolutely incapable of consistently overcoming our native soul inclinations when temptations come against us.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">Conversely, the moment we confess our thought sins to Christ and ask forgiveness of all our sins that we have been made aware of by the Holy Spirit, the power of a Holy Spirit comes to our inner being to beat that hidden sin desire into submission. As we continue the practice of this behavior, we will continue to grow into His image through the continual act of soul death, this again happens as we confess our sins at the point of our knowledge of sin.&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i><span class="criteria" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 34); font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">I</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;affirm, by the boasting in you which&nbsp;</span><span class="criteria" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 34); font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">I</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;have in Christ Jesus our Lord,&nbsp;</span><span class="criteria" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 34); font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">I</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</span><span class="criteria" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 34); font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">die</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</span><span class="criteria" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 34); font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">daily</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">. I Cor 15:31</span></i></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;"><br><br>Soul&nbsp;crucifixion&nbsp;happens as a matter of our yielding to His Grace and Power in our hearts BUT it happens as we lay our will down on the cross of exposing our sins first to Our Father in heaven and if necessary to anyone who saw us sin or were affected by our sin.&nbsp;</span><br><br><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;">We must be confident that this work of overcoming the flesh and human pride will happen if you have truly repented by actually turning away from doing the wrong thing.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;"><br><br>Our Lord Yeshua modeled this for us in the Garden of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;">Gethsemane</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;">&nbsp;the night in which He would be betrayed by his friend and Jewish brother, Judas.&nbsp;</span><br><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;"><br></span><i style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is possible,&nbsp;</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">let</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">&nbsp;</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">this</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">&nbsp;</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">cup</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">&nbsp;</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">pass</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">&nbsp;</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">from</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">&nbsp;</span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Me</span></span><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">;</span> nevertheless, not as I will, but as You [will]." Mt 26:39</span><br></span></i><br><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;">The ultimate sin we all will struggle with until we pass from this life to the next is sin of human pride and self sufficiency, the idea that we are our own boss. Satan uses our pride to overcome the good we want to do by allowing us to hold onto to our soul pride. Satan knows our pride tendencies so well and will oftentimes not have to do any form of demonic attack knowing that our pride will defeat us without demonic intrusion.</span><br><br><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">Before we move onto the application of soul&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;">crucifixion</span><span style="font-size: 15pt;">&nbsp;let's define the difference between a demonic attack and the natural workings of our flesh found in every human, deep in the inner workings of our fallen sinful human soul.</span></font><br><br><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;">Once you resist your flesh thoughts to lie or cheat or commit&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;">adultery</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;">&nbsp;in the mind or heart, Satan brings additional demonic support to attack you with the hope that by applying additional intensity or pressure to your difficult circumstances that he and EVIL will ultimately triumph over you by causing you to succumb to sin.&nbsp;</span><br><br><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px;">Many times we fall back to the mindset that in the end we will be forgiven our sin and receive that atonement in BLOOD of Jesus, but this only occurs in real time if we confess our sin. Repeating the same sins over and over, like outbursts of anger, can only be defeated on the inside of us by the power of the Blood of Yeshua. We know that continuing in sin ruins aspects of our practical life here on earth and in turn causes us to lack the power, peace, and influence we could be experiencing.&nbsp;</span><br><br><br><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="font-size: 15px;"><i>Here we need to stop and consider that spiritual discernment is required that comes to us beyond the natural realm, we need spiritual insight that comes directly from the Lord of heaven and earth to<b> know</b> what kind of spirit we are wrestling with at in our daily battles with sin and death. Remember dear reader that this battle rages for real right in the here and now, it happens in our life and it represents live theater of war with no breaks, no holidays, it comes at us in seasons but it is there ready to knock us off all the time so you and I must walk in the Spirit or we will succumb to temptation.</i></span><br><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;"><br>---</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">How often we miss the power of God to help us apply these principals in our daily lives. The area where we need this inner power to overcome the sins found in our soul is in our relationships with each other.&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;">So how can we experience on a daily basis the kind of relationships that should be the envy of the broken world around us?</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><br><br>Frankly,
we can't do anything that really pleases God outside of His help. This help only comes through
the cross of Jesus Christ and our willingness to die to our natural
inclinations and put these dirty deeds on His work on a very ugly thing called
a cross.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">When
we realize afresh that our soul attitudes drove Our Lord to the tree of His crucifixion
we gain the right perspective on how He and Our Father in heaven view heart
sins.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Trusting
in man’s view on the mind or soul that sets forth a human assessment of how to
manage human thought or the latest in human psychology is a manifestation of our soul pride.&nbsp; Our native human pride (spirit of death)
seeks to connect to the spirit of this age and time so to connect with its
framework of thinking and accepted practices on how to live, and quite
naturally we are led to follow in this way.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Satan,
the prince and power of the air, uses the weakness of our soul to follow the
works of our human wisdom to entice us into sinful self-reliance.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">By
accepting the reality presented to us from the scriptures that our soul is imperfect
we begin the process of coming clean from the power of our soul to keep us from
experiencing great relationships.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">Our
Ego or self-esteem, as we might define it, is totally ruined by the fall of man
in the Garden of Eden.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">When
Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
breaking the only law of prohibition set before them in their state of perfection
their souls died within them to the law of evil. Hard to accept but true
nonetheless.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Today all of us are stuck in the mire of that once-in-for-all fateful decision, we really only have a slice
of Adam's perfection before he ate that abominable fruit, we only can see the good to perform but our
tendency to evil continually ensnares us and most of the time entices us to follow the path
of death. Here we discover the real work that we must undertake in order to
crucify the flesh and gain victory over the natural propensity of our soul to
follow the way of death.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">When
we operate in our natural state, in the soul realm, we can act very often as
sheep without a shepherd. Whether we admit to this reality or not we stand in
need of a true shepherd who can guide us with our permanently messed up soul
back to the tree of life.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p>&nbsp;<i style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.22;"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
TrebuchetMS;mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;color:maroon">“For you were like
sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and <b>Overseer</b> <b>of</b>
<b>your</b> <b>souls</b>."&nbsp;</span></i><b style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.22;"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
TrebuchetMS;mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;color:maroon">I Pet.2:28</span></b></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">To
that fountain opened for sin and uncleanness.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">Ponce
De Leon's ancient journey did not lead him to any real fountain of a real
eternal life. If anything, he discovered the reality of the mirage of life
ultimately connected to the power of darkness, and sadly, in the end ole Ponce
found that place to be connected to the ancient lie of listening the voice of
powers that operate in the realm of satan’s lies.</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Life outside of Our Creator’s supreme authority over our soul is not worth
living.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;"><br>"I have been
crucified with Christ; it is </span><b style="color: maroon; font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;"><u>no longer I</u></b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;"> who live, but Christ
lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the
Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.</span><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></i><span style="font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><br></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;" class="yui-wk-div"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22; font-style: normal;">What
is Paul trying to reveal to us in this verse found in Gal. 2:20, is he referring
to his birth given soul and all that it contains? Is Paul's birth identity actually crucified with
Christ when he surrendered His life to Christ that fateful day on the road to Damascus?</span></div><p></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">The
“I” of “I am crucified” represents the soul &nbsp;side of Paul's being.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">Paul, a renowned Pharisee, keeper of the law, a man who had built up a great reputation as a Torah teacher
and holiness advocate.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">A
Torah trained rabbi of great reputation, a student of Gamaliel, a hard working
Jewish tent-maker. A man of real intellect. Artist by training. A scholar by
virtue of diligent study. A keeper of the law. A very religious man.</span></p><p class="Standard"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;">Understanding the "I" in Paul's case is very important because we all have an acquired "I" in this life. Things we have accomplished, our gifts and talents, our family, our titles, and many other things are earned&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px;">credentials</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;">&nbsp;of this life and are part of our soul existence.&nbsp;</span><br><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;"><br>The apostle Paul had more than most men and he still was willing to become a fool for Christ and his message of resurrection to the Greek man-based philosophical world he was called to reach.<br><br>--</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">We
must move now to the implications of this truth and gain an understanding of
how to apply this truth to our life today and to get a better handle on what
the Spirit of the Lord is seeking to provoke in us today, in our culture, with
its distinctive way of seducing us into the way of death using psychology and
medicine to keep us bound to a spirit of death.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">When
we realize our soul cannot be trusted to guide us to eternal life we find the
real beginning to life in Christ.</span></b></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">It
is only through an anointed hearing of the gospel of the Cross of Jesus Christ
that a person comes into a life-changing understanding (spiritually acquired)
of how to break free from the power of death found in our soul and mind.</span></b></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">For
the most intensely evil sinner and rebellious person who ever walked this earth
this war within ranges the entire gambit of persons all the way to the most noble of men and women
who bring beauty and government that bless our world. &nbsp;From the worst to the best of men each and
every person in between we find that all of us have no power to free from the
encumbrances found&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;">naively</span><span style="font-size: 15pt;">&nbsp;in our soul.</span></font></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Nothing
can reverse the curse of death on our soul. So when Paul reveals to us in the
Gal. 2:20 passage is very important.</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">We
must understand his audience was both Jew and Greek converts to the belief in
the bodily resurrection of Yeshua. Both camps of humanity believed in His
resurrection from the dead yet both came to this faith from totally different
vantage points. One from a law basis in the Torah and the other from a secular greco
roman perspective, yet for both groups, the answer lies in the same place, the cross of Yeshua and all that it meant for Him to obey His Father to walk with His Cross and what His example means to us today who are aligned with Him and His death.&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">The
Galatian believers preached the gospel of His death and resurrection to their
family, friends, and neighbors. They preached what Paul preached to them when
he first arrived in Galatia. But they soon drifted away from the basic&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;">principles</span><span style="font-size: 15pt;">&nbsp;delivered to them from the mouth of the apostle Paul a few years earlier.</span></font></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">No
less then the great apostle Peter was found among the number of those who sought to add to the original message of salvation. These Galatians were on the
verge of losing their way when they succumbed to the pressure of the Judizing Jews who came into their assembly
with a slightly different teaching that led many of the faithful to espouse a
way of sanctification that differed from Paul’s original message that formed
the assembly in Galatia.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
TrebuchetMS;mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;color:maroon">But even if we, or
an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached
to you, <b>let him be accursed.</b></span></i></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;TrebuchetMS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
TrebuchetMS;mso-bidi-font-family:TrebuchetMS;color:maroon">Gal. 1:8</span></b></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">In
Galatia the power of the flesh/soul overcame the basic simplicity of soul&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px;">crucifixion</span><span style="font-size: 15pt;">, this soul love was&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px;">surmounted</span><span style="font-size: 15pt;">&nbsp;by their love of their Hebrew roots and the religious pride that eventually drove them allow added elements to come into their message of Life. These little additions almost kept them out of heaven and hindered the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px;">foundational</span><span style="font-size: 15pt;">&nbsp;message of salvation found
only in the cross of Y'shua.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;">So when men tamper with the message once for all delivered to the saints we think we are just trying to make it a little better but in the end our better religion can actually kill us and ruin our soul.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">We
see this same tendency today when we limit the service of those who may have
been saved from a very dark place, a drug user, harlot, or someone with a
ton of tattoos from the music scene, we are tempted in a more civilized church in a certain neighborhood to put these kind aside in our public ministry.&nbsp;<br></span><br><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;">We can also limit those who do not have the same training as those who had the&nbsp;privilege&nbsp;of a high level of seminary training. We see even today in the Jewish roots community a divide in how we interpret the scriptures and who and how all the words of the sacred writings should be received.&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Paul
went after our proclivity to do this kind of thing very directly in his day,
used the Word of God to strengthen the church and reestablish the truth.</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">To
his very own sect of Pharisees Paul had to suffer a very real death to natural
logic. Here the rabbi Paul had to let go of his intelligence in the ways of the
Tanakh – the Rabbincal interpretation of the Torah, Poetry Books, Historical
Books, and the Prophets and reproach the gospel to people who called themselves
believers in Yeshua’s work on the cross.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">The
knowledge of history of man and Judaism. Of Moses and Aaron and the Levitical
priesthood. Paul crucified these things in his heart way before he was raised
up to be a spokesman for the only message that changes our soul problem. He
stayed dead to these things by dying daily.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">Paul
was taught for 13 years by the Lord, he waited on God's call to do what he was
told he would do the very first day he was converted. So when he felt most
ready to tell the world what he saw lifted up before his eyes on the road to
Damascus. But the wait was a daily cross within his soul that he learned to crucify.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">His Master, Jesus Christ, had to take him aside and train him in the way of
soul crucifixion. Part of Yeshua's training was to spend 40 days without food and water in the
wilderness and then be tempted by Satan directly to break the commandments of
His Father, Y'shua learned obedience by the things that He suffered, so to his
apostle, Saul.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><br></span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Same training is available to all of those who are willing to go through this kind of process. We all learn this kind heart training at the feet of Our Master who made the way of eternal
life possible to dying to His self-will. We must die today to self-will if we would
live a powerful faith-filled life and overcome that pride that brings contention.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Because
we are born into sin in a fleshy state, not one of us is capable of perfect
heart obedience, so whether we like it or not we must fight ourselves without any relief until we are called up to meet the Lord in the air.&nbsp;</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26.666667938232422px;">None of us can transport out of our mortal and flesh laden way to enter into perfect spiritual place consistently and constantly, yet we have to learn how to win against the flesh in-spite of our constant knowledge of this truth.</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Rom
7:1-6</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p><span class="yui-tag-span yui-tag" tag="span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.22;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">1&nbsp;Or do you
not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has
dominion over a man as long as he lives? &nbsp;2&nbsp;For the woman who has a
husband is bound by the law to&nbsp;her&nbsp;husband
as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of&nbsp;her&nbsp;husband. &nbsp;3&nbsp;So then
if, while&nbsp;her husband
lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her
husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though
she has married another man. &nbsp;4&nbsp;Therefore, my brethren, you also have
become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to
another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. &nbsp;5&nbsp;For
when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law
were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. &nbsp;6&nbsp;But now we have
been delivered from the law<u>, having died to what we were held by, so that we
should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not&nbsp;in&nbsp;the oldness of the letter</u>.</span></i><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">We
will not experience deliverance from soul death completely until we die
physically and leave this planet and we are released permanently from this time and
space continuam, but we are called to wage this struggle with the flesh and soul within
continually until we get to go Home.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Our war with our soul / flesh ends and we can go on to the bliss of perfection.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">But today, my dear friends, in order to have better relationships, we must die to our
soulish pride which wars within us.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">We
must die to our plans.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">We
must die to our credentials.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">We
must die to preferences.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">We
must die to our intelligence.</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">We
must die to our human strength.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Our
reputation.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Our
desire to be our own boss.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">And
any and all other pull of the flesh on our soul realm.&nbsp; </span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">We
must be crucified to these things or we will die eternally.</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.22;">&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><br>The
confession of our lips must be,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 1.22;">“for
me to live is Christ, and to die is gain”</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Let's
pray.</span></b></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">We
ask that you forgive us, especially those of us who are members of Your Body,
for our prideful self-indulgence. Our love of the world and our love of the
things of this life. We have failed miserably at being our own bosses. We
entreat you to have mercy on us and lead us into paths of righteousness for Your
Name's sake.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Amen.</span></p><p></p><p></p>Mon, 04 Aug 2014 13:11:11 +0100